Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Faransa ta shiga Yaƙin Shekaru talatin bayan nasarar Habsburg ta Spain a cikin Tawayen Dutch a cikin 1620s da kuma a yakin Nördlingen
a kan Sweden a shekara ta 1634. A shekara ta 1640, Faransa ta fara tsoma baki a siyasar Spain, ta taimaka wa tawayen a Catalonia, yayin da Spain ta amsa ta hanyar taimakawa tawayen Fronde a Faransa a 1648. A lokacin tattaunawar Zaman Lafiya na Westphalia a 1648, Faransa ta sami Sundgau kuma ta yanke damar Spain zuwa Netherlands daga Austria, wanda ya haifar da bude yaƙi tsakanin Faransa da Spain.