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The pretext for the war was given by the supposed ineligibility of Maria Theresa to the Hapsburg's throne after the Death of her father, the emperor Charles VI,

because the Salic Law precluded royal inheritance by a woman.

The very real reason was instead the will of France to challenge the power of the Hapsburg to get some territorial gain in the Austrian Flanders and that of Prussia to conquer the rich region of Silesia to the Hapsburg.

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