The outlook was no better on the international stage. No sooner had Maria Theresa assumed the throne than Frederick the Great ...

Maria Theresa thus demonstrated a keen sense of absolute monarchy. Conscious of the importance of titles, she even sent back a letter from Louis XV of France, who addressed her as empress, not as ...

Under the supervision of Maria Theresa (the only female Habsburg ruler ... vast elaborate gardens comparable to King Louis XIV of France's palace at Versailles. One of the finest baroque palaces ...