«Dar ley a los otros» y emanciparse de ella: balance de hegemonía en las dos guerras de Flandes (1635-1646)

This article aims at shedding light on how France attempted to break free from «the law» of the Spanish Habsburgs as well as to assess to what extent it achieved it during the decades of the 1630s and 1640s. In order to do that, it focuses on a concrete political space and a specific war context: the provinces and fronts of the Spanish Low Countries on the Western corner of the Holy Roman Empire. More specifically, this study covers the period between 1635, when Louis XIII declared war against Philip IV, and 1646, the last time the latter faced two wars in Flanders since the army of the United Provinces did not campaigned next year and the military operations took place only on the French front.