Eltham Palace And Gardens
All through the early 1680s, Louis XIV continued his aggressive drive to expand France’s borders, specifically along the Rhine river. The annexation of the historically German city ofStrasbourgin 1681 gave him control of the strategic province ofAlsace. France’s push toward the Rhine brought Louis XIV into conflict with the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, but Emperor Leopold I was distracted by a war against the Ottoman Empire, whose armies threatened his capital of Vienna in 1683. Henri’s death left his wife Queen…