"Treaty of Versailles" (9 March 1701). Alliance between France and Bavaria, to which Spain acceded on 7 April 1701. The French King Louis XIV and Philip V of Spain, on the one hand, made an alliance with the elector of Bavaria, Maximilian II Emanuel, on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession. The Elector of Bavaria would give political and military support to the Franco-Spanish coalition in the impending war, in exchange for the ceding in his favor from the Spanish Netherlands. Act of ratification and accession of King Philip V to the treaty of alliance concluded by the Elector of Bavaria on 9 March 1701, signed at Buen-Retiro on 7 April of that year. Articles IX and X. Collection of the Treaties of Peace, Alliance, Commerce adjusted by the Crown of Spain with the Foreign Powers (Colección de los Tratados de Paz, Alianza, Comercio ajustados por la Corona de España con las Potencias Extranjeras). Volume I. Madrid, 1796.