... shows how the governments of two quite different nations both in terms of domestic and foreign policies, could cooperate and disregard their religious differences in order to achieve their aims in the war. Also, there is not a great amount of historical facts and sources on the Swedish-French diplomatic relations at the time and hardly any which distinctly answer this research question (I found none), so the topic is certainly unique. How did Swedish and French diplomatic relations affect the Thirty -Years War? Basically, Sweden and France could continue the war and later get an advantageous peace in Westphalia because of several reasons of which their cooperation might have been the most important one. On their own the French and Swedish respective armies had few chances against the German Empire, which could be seen in 1634-1635, and they were forced to retreat. After 1636, when France had joined the war militarily, the ...

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