Pau Claris i Casademunt was a Catalan lawyer, clergyman and 94th President of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia at the beginning of the Catalan Revolt. On 16 January 1641 he proclaimed the Catalan Republic under the protection of France.
Pau Claris i Casademunt
Monument to Pau Claris by Rafael Atché i Ferré, on the Passeig de Lluís Companys, Barcelona
The Reapers' War, also known as the Catalan Revolt, was a conflict that affected the Principality of Catalonia between the years of 1640 and 1659. It had an enduring effect in the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), which ceded the County of Roussillon and the northern half of the County of Cerdanya to France, splitting these northern Catalan territories off from the Principality of Catalonia and the Crown of Aragon, and thereby receding the borders of Spain to the Pyrenees.
Battle of Montjuïc (1641) by Pandolfo Reschi
Corpus de Sang (7 June 1640)
Pau Claris, President of the Generalitat during the first steps of the War
Allegory of the secession of Catalonia and its integration in to France