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Why did France agree to stop supporting the Stuart claimant James Edward?

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Illustration of the Battle of Blenheim showing cavalry and infantry in combat, fallen soldiers, and smoke rising from cannon fire across a hilly battlefield. — War of the Spanish Succession The Battle of Blenheim (August 13, 1704), was the most famous victory of John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession.

France agreed to cease supporting the Stuart claimant James Edward, also known as the Old Pretender, as a formal condition of the Treaties of Utrecht. These treaties, concluded between 1713 and 1714, brought an end to the War of the Spanish Succession.

Under the terms of the peace treaty signed with Britain on April 11, 1713, France officially recognized Queen Anne as the legitimate sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland. By making this commitment, France effectively withdrew its backing for the Jacobite cause, which sought to restore the exiled Stuart line to the British throne.1