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In 1687 the imperial Diet assembled at Regensburg, to examine the claims of the King of France to Alsatia, Lorraine, the Palatinate, and other possessions, which his majesty longed to appropriate out of the domains of his neighbors.
On the 2d of October, 1689, a travelling-carriage might have been seen standing in front of the large, antiquated