sentences:  Ferdinando Carlo again chose the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession.In 1701, when the anti-French coalition forces conquered Mantua, he fled to Casale, leaving his consort Anna Isabella Gonzaga behind as regent during his absence.He paid heavily for his choice, when the French were chased back over the Alps in 1706. after the death of Duchess of Mantua, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga his appointment Prime Minister Ascanio Andreasi thus constituting the 'last state board Ducale, with the task of keeping at bay the internal changes of the state Mantovano against war.