Editing Reus (section)

===Growth in the eighteenth century===
In the eighteenth century Reus had phenomenal growth and became the second city of the [[principality of Catalonia]]. The walls were completely demolished in 1766. The town developed the textile trade and the [[liquor]] trade. In this last contribution was the first center, the others were [[London]] and [[Paris]]. From this time it's the popular sentence "Reus, Paris and London”, because Reus was one of the centers of the liquor marquet. The construction of a canal between Reus and Salou, proposed by [[Pere Sunyer]] was granted in 1805, but it was stopped because of the [[Peninsular War|French War]]. At this time Reus had consulates in the United States, [[Liguria]], England, [[Holland]], [[Sweden]], [[Republic of Ragusa|Ragusa]], [[Denmark]], [[Sicily]], the [[Papal States]], France, [[Portugal]], [[Naples]] and [[Prussia]].