Excerpt from Corneile and the Spanish Drama
Ever since the reign of Charles V., Spain had, for a considerable period, been the preponderating power in Europe. Her armies invaded the Old and the New World. Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the Two Sicilies, Sardinia, a considerable part of Northern Italy, Cerdagne and Rousillon, Franche-Comte, and the Netherlands, were all in the hands of the Spaniards. As the allies of the Ligue, they penetrated into the very heart of France, and in 1591 a Spanish garrison was established in Paris. The Catholics, constituting the vast bulk of the French people, sympathized with, and were assisted by Spain, the classical land of religious orthodoxy. Both during the religious struggles between Catholics and Huguenots, and later, during the Spanish wars, the French came into closer contact than before with their southern neighbors.
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