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1. Duchy Of Lorraine

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   The Final Decades and Annexation
   The political fate of Lorraine was sealed in the 18th century. Following the extinction of the direct line of the House of Lorraine, the duchy passed, through marriage, to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. However, through complex diplomatic arrangements engineered by Louis XV of France, the duchy was granted as an apanage to the deposed King of Poland, Stanislas Leszczynski, in 1737[^5].
   Stanislas ruled Lorraine as a French client state until his death in 1766. U…