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.