Editing Arras (section)

====Renaissance====
{{Main|French Renaissance}}
[[File:Braun Arras UBHD.jpg|thumb|Arras in 1572]]
[[File:The entry of King Louis XIV and Queen Maria-Theresa in Arras on 30 July 1667 (by Adam Frans van der Meulen).jpg|thumb|The entry of King [[Louis XIV]] and Queen Maria Theresa in Arras on 30 July 1667]]
Arras remained under Habsburg rule from 1493 until 1640 when it was captured by the French. The Spanish ceded it by the peace treaty in 1659 and it has since remained French. The [[Union of Arras]] was signed here in January 1579 by the Catholic principalities of the [[Low Countries]] that remained loyal to King [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] of [[Habsburg]]; it provoked the declaration of the [[Union of Utrecht]] later the same month.