Entering the Thirty Years' War

France was entering the Thirty Years’ War with following to the Spanish Habsburg triumph in the Dutch Revolt around the 1620s and at the Battle of Nördlingen was fighting against Sweden in 1634. In the 1640 France was beginning to get in the way of the Spanish politics, giving support to the revolt in Catalonia, while Spain in reply the Fronde rebellion in France in 1648. For the period of the cooperation for the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, France gained Alsace and Lorraine. They cut off the Spanish access to the Netherlands from Austria, guide to open the warfare between the French and Spanish. After fighting the war for ten years and Anglo- French alliance was victorious at the Battle of the Dunes in 1658 and the peace was settled because of the treaty in 1659. The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed to end the 1635 to 1659 war between France and Spain, a war that was in the beginning a part of the Thirty Year’s War. It was signed on the Pheasant Island, which was a river that was on the border between the two major countries. Their ministers, Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro, characterized the king of France my son Louis XIV and Philip IV of Spain respectively. When they finished signing the Treaty of Pyrenees the war was finally ended.

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