Excerpt from Correspondance de Louis XIV Avec le Marquis Amelot, Son Ambassadeur en Portugal: 1685-1688 Il fallait tout creer pour le nouveau royaume appauvri par les soixante annees de captivite sous le joug de la mourante dynastie autrichienne, finances, armee, flotte, arsenaux. Lorsque l'espagne voulut reprendre par les armes le royaume separe, les conspirations vinrent a son aide; mais don Joao IV triompha de tout, et a la nu d'un regne de seize ans il pouvait prevoir que le Portu galresterait maitre de ses destinees.
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