Foix is a Pyrenean city and county in the south of France, a border territory between the Occitan world and the Bourbon monarchy that Cardinal Mazarin administers from Paris.
| Type | Place |
| Region | South of France, Pyrenees |
| Period | 1648 |
| Spanish entry | Foix |
In 1648
- Foix belongs to a group of southern towns whose loyalty to the crown is more nominal than real. Geographic distance and the memory of an earlier autonomy make these lands zones of transit, smuggling and refuge for those fleeing the consequences of the Fronde.
- The county appears in the plot of the Saint-Germain gesta (campaign-cycle) in a single period of agitation. Something happens in Foix, or through Foix, that connects the remote south with events unfolding at the same time in Provence, around the Fief of Don Guifré.
See also
- Carcassonne, the neighboring stronghold of the Occitan south