Sanabre, Resistència del Rossello a incorporar-se a França.

Condition : good, slightly rubbed.

Josep Sanabre gives the full measure of the deluge of fire and blood that Rosselló, Conflent, Cerdanya and Vallespir suffered at the hands of the powerful French and Spanish monarchs who ruled Catalonia throughout the 17th century (and before...) and then divided it up without demanding anything from its inhabitants. Once the Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed in 1659 (and before...), they suffered occupations, expulsions, spoliations, destructions, thefts, extortions, fines, imprisonments, ill-treatments, rapes, tortures, murders, repressions of all kinds, as the victors did. Josep Sanabre, with great skill, gives us the historical facts of this terrible period, incorporating into his account the corresponding documents, letters, edicts and memoirs written by both sides. In addition to all the material, physical and moral damage, the Catalans saw their institutions denied and suppressed, their clergy persecuted, their language forbidden. They resisted - obviously! with well-known episodes such as the revolt of Vallespir and Conflent, the plots of Perpinyà and Vilafranca, but also every day with the opportunities they had. They paid dearly for it.