Death
However, Joseph Ferdinand died on February 3, 1699 at the age of six, leaving the Spanish Succession uncertain again. His death was quite sudden, Joseph Ferdinand being gripped with seizures, vomiting and prolonged loss of consciousness. He was rumoured to have been poisoned, but nothing has been proven. He is buried in Brussels.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“When Gabriel’s trumpet ends all life’s delay,
Will crash the beams of firmamental woe:
Not nature will sustain the even crime
Of death, though death sustains all nature, so.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)