French diplomats, to at least keep Emperor…

January 1668 CE

French diplomats, to at least keep Emperor Leopold I out of the conflict, have entered secret negotiations with the court at Vienna, offering the Emperor the partition of the Spanish Empire.

King Charles II of Spain is a six-year-old child, whom no one expects to live long, due to numerous physical and mental disabilities; the Spanish line of the Habsburgs will die out with him.

The Emperor takes up the offer.

He is to receive Spain itself, along with its colonies and the Duchy of Milan.

France, for its part, claims the Spanish Netherlands, Franche-Comté, Navarre and the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.

The secret treaty of partition is agreed on January 19, 1668.

The Emperor thus no longer has any reason to go to war with France, as it only occupies territories that the Emperor has agreed it should have.

(The treaty will however not be ratified by the Emperor in the following years, so as not to worsen relations with Spain any further.)

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