Treaty of the Pyrenees
November 7, 1659
After twenty-four years of war, France and Spain signed a peace along the mountain border that transferred Roussillon and Artois to France and betrothed the Spanish infanta Maria Theresa to Louis XIV. Spain's European dominance was finished; France's was beginning. The center of gravity of Europe had moved, and the marriage clause would later give Louis a pretext for claiming the Spanish throne.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.