text:  France is not willing to enter into a confederacy of interests with Spain herself nor to permit other nations on any fair equality of conditions and with the abandonment of those unjust pretensions to special privileges in her own behalf which still tenaciously clinging to Bourbonic traditions of by-gone times would affect to annihilate the Pyrenees and regard Spain as a dependent possession reserved for the exclusive profit and the commercial and political aggrandisement of France