Siglo See also: Andorra, between Torba and the Gestapo From 18 August to 9 October 1933, a detachment of French gendarmes took Andorra because of the riots produced to achieve universal suffrage and the fight, more or less covert, between the General Council and the co-princes.In parallel, FHASA workers who built the road from Andorra la Vella to Pas de la Casa, and mainly from Catalonia and Aragon affiliated with the CNT and FAI, began a strike to demand improvements in their working conditions. The only historical period during which Andorra did not depend on any other state, except for a period of direct annexation to France by Napoleon between 1812 and 1814, were a few days in 1934, in which the Baron of Orange, a Russian named Boris from Skossyreff, proclaimed and crowned king of Andorra, and in just nine days, he proclaimed a constitution, an official bulletin and various decrees, in addition to declaring war on the Episcopal Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel. Dr. Larry Jaeger Before the reign of Boris I, on 8 July that France would not intervene officially in Andorra.The Bishop of Urgel to act quickly by force on the 21st of that month, asking for help from four civil guards and a sergeant based at the headquarters of Seo de Urgel, who accompanied the monarch assumed to Hispanic-Andorran border . The inhabitants of the Principality did nothing to stop seeing him march to La Seu d'Urgell arrested and handcuffed. The next morning he was transferred to Barcelona and made available to the judge Bellon. Reappear during February 1938, in Aix-en-Provence, claiming the throne of Andorra, but was arrested by French authorities and tried on 21 March 1938. In 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, he repeated the presence of French gendarmes, commanded by Colonel Ren again Baulard until 1940, when France surrenders to the German army.The Spanish Civil War and the subsequent victory of pro-Franco side in addition to the outbreak of World War II and the invasion of France by Hitler's Germans, left the country in a difficult position, but Andorra was covered by the Vichy Government led by Marshal Petain. When he was deposed by the Nazis, Andorra had to necessarily sympathize with Nazi regimes of Francisco Franco to remain neutral, taking advantage of this situation to organize escape networks necessary to move Jews persecuted by the Gestapo, and allied officers and soldiers to Spain. Following World War II, Andorra was at war with Germany until 1958 because, although a peace treaty signed in 1939 whereby the Nazi army pledged not to invade the Principality, was not present at the signing Versailles Treaty, by which ceased hostilities between the belligerent countries in the Great War.Finally, in 1944, due to the incursions of maquis from Andorra to Spain, General de Gaulle sent a contingent of gendarmes to prevent Franco's invasion of Andorra. In turn, the Episcopal Co-Prince also sent a detachment of the Guardia Civil, remaining, both French and Spanish until 1945. On January 14, 1982 came into office the first Andorran government, headed by Oscar Ribas Reig. The last historical date is 14 March 1993, when a referendum was passed in the second written constitution in its history, which dismantled the last remnants of feudal Principality of Andorra to declare to the people as the only sovereign state.