My Dauphin, regardless of our disagreements in the past let me be the first to congratulate you and thank you. Without many troops or much support, you and your house hold our Southern frontier, on which we face an actual and not self-induced threat. But far from merely holding, you have gone on the offensive and are throwing the heathens back to the sea. I salute you, hero of France.

Along with the carrot, though, comes the stick, and I must say that I would be most pleased if Granada and Cordoba were given to the Spanish crown.