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See also:VERGENNES, See also:CHARLES GRAVIER, See also:COMTE DE (1717-1787) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Dijon on the loth of See also:December 1717. He was introduced to the profession of See also:diplomacy by his See also:uncle, M. de Chavigny, under whom he saw his first service at See also:Lisbon. His successful conduct of French interests at the See also:court of See also:Trier in 1750 and the following years led to his being sent to See also:Constantinople in 1755 at first as See also:minister plenipotentiary, then as See also:ambassador. In 1768 he was recalled, ostensibly because of a mesalliance with Mme Testa, widow of a Pera surgeon, but really because See also:Choiseul thought him not zealous enough in provoking a See also:quarrel between See also:Russia and See also:Turkey. After Choiseul's See also:death he was sent to See also:Stockholm with instructions to help the aristocratic party of the " Hats " with See also:advice and See also:money. The revolution by which Gustavus III. (See also:August 19, 1772) secured for himself the reality instead of the See also:shadow of See also:power was a See also:great See also:diplomatic See also:triumph for See also:France. With the See also:accession of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI. Vergennes became See also:foreign minister. His See also:general policy was one of friendly relations with See also:Austria, combined with the See also:limitation of See also:Joseph II.'s ambitious designs; the See also:protection of Turkey; and opposition at all points to See also:England. His hatred of England and his See also:desire to avenge the disasters of the Seven Years' See also:War led to his support of the See also:American States in the War of See also:Independence, a step of which the moral and See also:financial results had not a little to do with the Revolution of 1789. Vergennes sought by a See also:series of negotiations to secure the armed See also:neutrality of the See also:Northern See also:Powers eventually carried out by See also:Catherine II.; he ceded to the demands of See also:Beaumarchais that France should secretly provide the Americans with arms and See also:volunteers. In 1777 he informed the American commissioners that France acknowledged the See also:Republic and was willing to See also:form an offensive and defensive See also:alliance with the new See also:state. In domestic affairs Vergennes belonged to the old school. He intrigued against See also:Necker, whom he regarded as a dangerous innovator, a republican, a foreigner and a See also:Protestant. In 1781 he became See also:chief of the See also:council of See also:finance, and in 1783 he supported the nomination of See also:Calonne as controller general. Vergennes died on the 13th of See also:February 1787, before the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the See also:Assembly of Notables which he is said to have suggested to Louis XVI.
See P. Fauchelle, La Diplomatie francaise et la Ligue See also:des neutres d e l 780 (1976-83) (See also:Paris, 1893); See also:John See also:Jay, The See also:Peace Negotiations of 1782—83 as illustrated by the Confidential Papers of Shelburne and Vergennes (New See also:York, 1888) ; L. See also:Bonneville de Marsangy, Le See also:Chevalier de Vergennes, son ambassade a Constantinople (Paris, 1894), and Le Chevalier de Vergennes, son ambassade en Suede (Paris, 1898).
End of Article: VERGENNES, CHARLES GRAVIER, COMTE DE (1717-1787)
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