Luis Henrique

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Metternich’s similarly obsessive desire to dominate Italy in order to deny it to France was rooted in the sixteenth-century wars between Francis I and Charles V, and it was to be the greatest drain on resources for the Habsburg monarchy over the next half-century. He too, in building up the Sardinian kingdom as a barrier to French influence, created the power that would drive Austria out of Italy.
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
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