CHAPTER XI

REVIVAL OF SPAIN UNDER THE FIRST BOURBONS (1700-1788 A.D.) 279

French influence dominates, 280. The new queen and the princess Orsini, 282. War of the Spanish Succession, 283. The Catalan revolt, 290. A new European war, 292. Philip abdicates and returns, 294. The adventures of Ripperdá, 295. Spanish account of the war with England, 298. The war of the Austrian Succession, 300. The Good King Ferdinand VI, 301. The singer Farinelli, 301. Charles III, 303. Expulsion of the Jesuits, 306.

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