verner pour acquerir des intelligences par presens;[1] Qu'un Ambassadeur doit estre sobre, & sabstenir des mets exquis; Qu’il se devoit abstenir de boire du vin aux banquets;[2] En quels cas un Ambassadeur peut témoigner sa hardiesse & son courage;[3] Que l'usage du chiffre est fort necessaire à l'Ambassadeur; Accidents advenus faute de se servir des chiffres; Les instructions des Ambassadeurs doivent estre écrites en chiffres; Raisons au contraire;[4] Le secret est fort recommendable à l'Ambassadeur entre toutes autres qualitez.[5]
'Indice des plus belles Harangues, dispersees en tous les Historiens, tans anciens que modernes, apropriees aux plus importantes matieres de l'Ambassade.'[6]
(b) Wicquefort,[7] L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions,[8] which was
- ↑ p. 363.
- ↑ pp. 388, 389: 'Secrets découvers a cause du vin'; p. 391.
- ↑ pp. 393–4.
- ↑ pp. 467–73.
- ↑ pp. 572–3, 574. 'Raisons au contraire de la precedante contre la loüange des Venissiens à garder le secret', pp. 576–8.
- ↑ pp. 585–602; e.g. 'Pour faciliter une entreprise difficile, soit militaire ou civile, & contester l'opinion contraire', pp. 596–7.
- ↑ 1598–1682. Wicquefort was born at Amsterdam. He became minister resident of the Elector of Brandenburg at Paris, 1628. He continued in this office until 1658, when Cardinal Mazarin, having intercepted his correspondence of a character offensive to the Cardinal's government, ordered him to leave the kingdom, and, on his refusing, imprisoned him in the Bastile, whence he was sent under escort to Calais, and embarked for England. 'On his return to his native country, Wicquefort was appointed, on the recommendation of the Pensionary John de Witt, historiographer of the republic and secretary interpreter of despatches. Whilst in these employments, Wicquefort received a secret pension from Louis XIV, was named by the Duke of Luneburg his resident at the Hague, and being accused in 1675 of revealing the secrets of the state to foreigners, was tried and sentenced by the supreme court of Holland to imprisonment for life. He remained in prison until 1679, when he escaped through the address and filial devotion of his daughter, and retired to Zell in Hanover, where he died at the advanced age of eighty-five, in 1682.—Wheaton, History of the Law of Nations, pp. 234–5.
- ↑ 1679. 'One of the most remarkable works published during the seven-
