and this caused the war a month before, young philip had already become the king of spain, the throne, which was bequeathed to him by the childless charlesburg. his cousin grandfather. the prospects for a merger of two states so powerful then, as spain and france, frightened many european powers and a war began, which went down in history as the war of the spanish succession. she walked for 14 years. everything. at that time, spain was under french influence, where louis xvi continued to rule. as a result, philip remained the king of spain, retained many possessions of the habsburgs in europe and refused from the claim to the french throne, which went to the great-grandson of louis 14, will be 15. and philip the fifth, despite the presence of a mental illness, which was called the melancholy rule of spain for more than 20 years on november 16, 1836, alexander sergeevich pushkin received by mail an anonymous diploma of the order of cuckolds. the same message was received by six more addressees, acquaintances and friends of the poets on the same day. pushkin sent a duel challenge to george dantes, the adopted son of baron gekkern, by mail,