If the Franco-Spanish war (1635--59) ended ambiguously, despite Spanish concessions, the following War of Devolution (1667-8) was to remove any doubt as to the ascendancy of France to military dominance in Europe.
If the Franco-Spanish war (1635--59) ended ambiguously, despite Spanish concessions, the Spanish maintained their main territorial holding in the Low Countries and in Italy and Catalonia had successfully expelled the French. However the War of Devolution (1667-8) unambigiously marked the ascendancy of France to military dominance in Europe.