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100 1 _aBourgeois, Émile,
_d1857-1934
245 1 0 _aManuel historique de politique étrangère, tome Ier [de 4]
250 _aTroisième édition
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-22
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _a"Manuel historique de politique étrangère, tome Ier [de 4]" by Émile Bourgeois is a historical manual written in the late 19th century. It presents the origins of modern Europe to ground French foreign policy in historical understanding, emphasizing the fractures of the Reformation, the rise of sovereign states, colonial expansion, the Eastern Question, and the balance-of-power struggles that crystallize around Richelieu’s diplomacy. The work positions itself as civic education rather than a technical guide for diplomats. The opening of this volume sets out its aim: France, now responsible for its own destiny, must study history to choose and keep its rightful place in the world; the book therefore serves as a tool of public instruction. A brief notice for the second edition explains the research burden of correcting partisan judgments and welcomes France’s turn toward an interest-driven foreign policy. The long introduction sketches the making of modern Europe not simply from the fall of Constantinople but from the twin forces of Reformation and overseas expansion, which shattered religious unity while empowering absolutist states; it contrasts maritime colonial drives with the enduring Eastern Question and highlights Russia’s rise as a Byzantine-tinged continuation of medieval frontier expansion. The narrative then moves to Richelieu: facing a near-encirclement by the Habsburgs, he rebuilds alliances, contests Spanish-Imperial control of Alpine passes (Valtellina), and, despite internal crises (Huguenot revolts, court conspiracies, La Rochelle), intervenes decisively in the Mantuan succession. By taking Pinerolo, relieving Casale, forging an Italian league, and securing the Treaty of Cherasco, he breaks Spanish designs in northern Italy and pries the German Catholic League away from Spanish direction (Treaty of Fontainebleau). The section closes as Gustavus Adolphus, subsidized by France but pursuing his own Protestant and Baltic ambitions, complicates Richelieu’s careful balance, with French envoys struggling to restrain Swedish overreach while preserving the broader anti-Habsburg alignment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Eugène Belin, 1901
653 _aEurope -- Politics and government
653 _aFrance -- Foreign relations
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=2e-fAAAAMAAJ
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77291
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