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RASTATT , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand duchy of See also:Baden, on the Murg, 4 M. above its junction with the See also:Rhine and 15 M.
by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Karlsruhe. Pop. (1905) 14,404. The old See also:palace of the margraves of Baden, a large See also:Renaissance edifice in red See also:sandstone, is now partly used for military purposes and contains a collection of pictures, antiquities and trophies from the See also:Turkish See also:wars. The See also:chief manufactures are stoves, See also:beer and See also:tobacco. Until the end of the 17th See also:century Rastatt was unimportant, but after its destruction by the See also:French in 1689 it was rebuilt on a larger See also:scale by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, See also:margrave of Baden, the imperial See also:general in the Turkish wars. It was then the See also:residence of the margraves until 1771. The Baden revolution of 1849 began with a See also:mutiny of soldiers at Rastatt in May 1849, and ended here a few See also:weeks later with the See also:capture of the town by the Prussians. For some years Rastatt was one of the strongest fortresses of the See also:German See also:empire, but its fortifications were dismantled in 189o.
See Schuster, Rastatt, See also:die ehemalige badische Residenz and Bundesfestung (See also:Lahr, 1902) ; and Lederle, Rastatt and See also:seine Umgebung (Rastatt, 1905).
Rastatt has been the See also:scene of two congresses. At the first See also:congress, which was opened in See also:November 1713, negotiations were carried on between See also:France and See also:Austria for the purpose of ending the See also:war of the See also:Spanish See also:succession. These culminated in the treaty of Rastatt signed on the 7th of See also:March 1714. The second congress, which was opened in See also:December 1797, was intended to rearrange the See also:map of Germany by providing See also:compensation for those princes whose lands on the See also:left See also:bank of the Rhine had been seized by France. It had no result, however, as it was ended by the outbreak of the See also:European war, but it had a sequel of some See also:interest. As the three French representatives were leaving the town in See also:April 1799 they were waylaid, and two of them were assassinated by some Hungarian soldiers. The origin of this See also:outrage remains shrouded in See also:mystery, but the See also:balance of See also:evidence seems to show that the See also:Austrian authorities had commanded their men to seize the papers of the French plenipotentiaries in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to avoid damaging disclosures about Austria's designs on See also:Bavaria, and that the soldiers had exceeded their instructions. On the other See also:hand, some authorities think that the See also:deed was the See also:work of French emigrants, or of the party in France in favour of war.
For See also:fuller particulars of the two sides of this controversy see K. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also:Heidelberg, 1869); J. A. Freiherr von Helfert, Der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also:Vienna, 1874) ; See also:Bohtlingk, See also:Napoleon and der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also:Leipzig, 1883) ; and Zum Rastadter Gesandtenmord (Heidelberg, 1895) ; H. Huffer, Der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also:Bonn, 1896) ; and H. von See also:Sybel, in See also:Band 39 of the Historische Zeitschrift.
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