English summary: The Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659 ended the Franco-Spanish war that began in 1635. The conflict's history of numerous earlier futile attempts to enforce peace shows that ithe treaty was about more than an appeasement of two particularly stubborn opponents. In 1659, the tectonics of the European state system were redesigned: the French hegemony began and the glorious Siglo de Oro of Spain ended. This volume brings together...
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