L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions Et Reflaxions sur Les Memoires Pour Les Ambassadeurs et Rosponse Au Ministre Prisonnier Et Discours Historique de L'election de L'Empereur et des Electeurs de L'Empire

Abraham de Wicquefort

Edité par Pierre Marteau, Cologne, 1689

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A scarce and early collection of works, discussing political issues surrounding restoration France, and King Louis XIV. Written in French Written while the author was imprisoned, the collection contains both parts one and two of L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions, Reflaxions sur Les Memoires Pour Les Ambassadeurs et Rosponse Au Ministre Prisonnier and Discours Historique de L'election de L'Empereur et des Electeurs de L'Empire. Featuring illuminated capitals. Wicqufort was an intelligencer, gazetteer and a diplomat of the second order who is remembered more for what he wrote than for his other accomplishments. Born in Holland, Wicquefort nevertheless spent most of his diplomatic career in Paris. Here he served as resident of the Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1626 until 1658, when, having fallen foul of Mazarin, he was first briefly imprisoned in the Bastille and then expelled. Invited to The Hague by John de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, Wicquefort was employed as a translator for the States General but chiefly as the Grand Pensionary\'s special secretary for French correspondence. In 1675 Wicquefort, who had in the previous year also secured the appointment of resident in Holland of the Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle, was accused by his enemies of selling state secrets. He was tried by the Court of Holland and, despite his plea of diplomatic immunity, imprisoned for life on the grounds that he remained a Dutch national in the paid service of its government to which he had taken an oath of secrecy. Sent, like Grotius before him, to the prison of Loevestein (though he escaped to Celle in 1679), he devoted his time to furious writing. First published in the year before he died, and subsequently reissued many times, this became the most highly regarded manual of diplomacy of the eighteenth century. Disbound, although with original rear board and backstrip. Generally firmly bound to the text block edge, although with title page absent, and the last few leaves detached, yet present. Generally bright and clean, although with the first page slightly age toned, and with the odd spot throughout. Good Only.

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• Titre: L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions Et Reflaxions sur Les Memoires Pour Les Ambassadeurs et Rosponse Au Ministre Prisonnier Et Discours Historique de L'election de L'Empereur et des Electeurs de L'Empire
• Éditeur: Pierre Marteau, Cologne
• Date de parution: 1689
• Reliure: Leather
• Illustrateur: None
• État de l'article: Good Only
• Type de livre: book