Ramon Trobat has been branded a representative figure of the Pro-French movement. However, he has little in common with those Catalans similar to France after the Reapers’ War. There is no other Catalan politician with his characteristics. His similarities are limited to the fact of his «exile», in the north of Catalonia, under French rule, to his ties with the king of France in view of an impossible return to Catalonia. The exclusion from Philip IV’s general pardon, from 1652, put him in a position of obsessive French affiliation in order to preserve family patrimony. The study of Ramon Trobat is the study of a whole country, of a whole generation that evokes a possible way of Catalonia away from Spain but it is also the study of the decline of a elite, symbolized by the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) and the annexation of the Rosselló to France. The defence of France may be interpreted, at the end of the 17th century, as the defence of the formation of the Catalan nation, linked to modernity. Trobat, turned into intendant of Louis XIV’s France becomes the link between 1640 and the 17th century, between the alliance and Catalonia’s absolute reject regarding France. Trobat became one of the most influential Catalans in one of the most powerful monarchies of Europe. This fact cannot be omitted by historiography, since it is essential to understand the evolution of Catalan political thinking near the War of the Spanish Succession.