The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_de_Braços" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Junta de Braços">Junta de Braços</a> (parliamentary assembly) of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Catalonia" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Principality of Catalonia">Principality of Catalonia</a> proclaimed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Republic_(1641)" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catalan Republic (1641)">Catalan Republic</a> under French protection.<sup about="#mwt50" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_17#cite_note-8" id="mwSQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwSg">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8">Gelderen, Martin van; Skinner, Quentin (2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=H1ZgD7vlFLYC&amp;pg=PA284" id="mwCGs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage</a>. Cambridge University Press. p. 284. <a about="#mwt47" class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCG0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span about="#mwt47" id="mwCG4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt47" href="./Special:BookSources/9781139439619" id="mwCG8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781139439619">9781139439619</a></span>