THE WAR OF TI1E POLISH SUCCESSION. III 1733 Augustus IL of Poland and Saxony died and Stall islas Leszczynski (q.v.), whose daughter had married Louis XV. of France, was elected King by the Diet through French influence. Some of the nobles, however, were determined that the crown should pass to Augustus (Frederick Au gustus II. of Saxony) , son of the late Icing. Russia and Austria supported Augustus and a Russian army placed him on the throne. Stanislas with drew to the fortress of Danzig, where he held out until June, 1734. France, in retaliation for ,Austria's support of Augustus III., declared war on the Emperor. The French forces invaded Lorraine and fought successfully on the Rhine (1733-34). Charles Emmanuel III. of Sardinia took up arms against Austria, and in 1734 Don Carlos, son of Philip V. of Spain, seized the op portunity to undertake the conquest of the Two sicilies, which had been wrested from Spain in the War of the Spanish Succession. The Austri
ans were overthrown at Bilonto on May 25, 1734. and in 1735 Don Carlos was crowned King of the Two Sieilies. By the preliminaries of Vi enna. (October 3. 1735), Austria relinquished the possession of these regions. Augustus M. was recognized as King of Poland. though Stan islas retained the royal title and was given for his life the duchies of Lorraine and Bar, which were afterwards to revert to France. Francis Stephen, the dispossessed Duke of Lorraine, re ceived the Grand Duchy of Tuseany as eompcusa tion. France lent its guarantee to the Prag matic Sanction (q.v.) and Parma and Piacenza were handed over to the Emperor by Don Carlos. The definitive Peace of Vienna was not signed till 1735.