guipuscoans

Updated: May 20, 2025

How little the Guipuscoans would have disliked separation from Spain and annexation to France we may judge from the fact that, a few years later, the States of Guipuscoa actually offered to transfer their allegiance to France on condition that their peculiar franchises should be held sacred. One wound the partition would undoubtedly have inflicted, a wound on the Castilian pride.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5