Supported by Maximilian, France induced the emperor and empire to remain neutral during the Franco-Spanish war. This success for France, however, did not prevent Holland from concluding peace with Spain on June 5, 1648. But France received recompense for this disappointment in a new and great ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 1971: An assembly of 91 Catholic Bishops and 150 plus priests meets in Spain, where a resolution condemning the church’s continued cooperation with the regime of the aging Francisco Franco. The resolution adopted is the first serious challenge to Franco’s authority in...
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She was hooked and a Francophile was born! The Rouen Lean is not a dance, nor the result of drinking too much wine, but the very obvious tilt exhibited by many of the city’s ancient half-timbered buildings constructed during the Middle Ages. Our hotel was a prime example of this with...
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Eighty Years’ War, (1568–1648), the war of Netherlands independence from Spain, which led to the separation of the northern and southern Netherlands and to the formation of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (the Dutch Republic). The first phase o