Discours sur l'art de negocier

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Date1737
PublisherParis : Chez Nyon
NotesThis text constitutes one of the diplomatic manuals which began to be published in Europe in the mid-17th-18th centuries and theorized modern diplomatic pratice. Antoine Pecquet (1704-1762) was an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Louis XV’s reign.
NotesHe published his essay in the line of the such manuals as Abraham de Wicquefort’s (1681) or François de Callières’ (1716) and seems to be the first author to formulate the concept of the corps diplomatique.
NotesSource: KEENS-SOPER Maurice, “François de Callières and Diplomatic Theory”, in The Historical Journal, vol.16, n°3 (1973), Cambridge University Press, pp. 485-508. Accessible online on JSTOR through the Library’s database gateway.
Digitization date2015
Original LibraryThe Graduate Institute, Geneva - The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library