FRANÇOIS-PAUL DE LISOLA AND ENGLISH OPPOSITION TO LOUIS XIV
Mark Goldie|Charles-Édouard Levillain
Abstract Between the Restoration in 1660 and Revolution 1688 English public abandoned its century-long animus against Spain began to identify France as chief enemy. Historians often hold that most significant intervention shifting balance of opinion was Dutch-inspired pamphlet, England's appeal from private cabal at Whitehall (1673), written by Huguenot Pierre du Moulin. It is argued here an immensely influential earlier made François-Paul de Lisola, his Buckler state justice (1667), which, a critical juncture, presented rhetorically powerful body arguments about nature European system. A Catholic service Habsburg emperor, who spent nearly two years England 1666–8, Lisola accomplished versatile diplomat publicist. This article interweaves diplomatic history with geopolitical argument, tracing paths which led Europe's Grand Alliance Louis XIV.
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