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Updated: May 20, 2025
In order to attach this great general to himself forever, the king had just ceded to Duke Bernard the landgravate of Elsass, hereditary possession, as it was, of the house of Austria.
The marshal was so grateful for the confidence which they had placed in him that several months later, when the Emperor gathered up all the little European states and reduced their number to thirty-two, out of which he formed the confederation of the Rhine, he not only contrived to preserve the landgravate but gained for the landgrave the title of Grand-Duke and an enlargement of his state which increased the population from scarcely five hundred thousand to over one million.
Instead of that I shall spend her salary. The old story; going out for wool and returning shorn." The conversation of which this is the concluding fragment, occurred in the public room of the Hotel de Hesse, in the village of Homburg on the Hill an insignificant handful of houses, officiating as capital of the important landgravate of Hesse-Homburg.
At his death the landgravate of Elsass reverted to France, together with the town of Brisach, which he had won from the Imperialists.
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