Details

Subjects:

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 -- Diplomatic history.
Relations.
Diplomatic history.
France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774.
France.
History.
France -- Foreign relations -- 1715-1774.
International relations.
France -- Relations -- Austria.
Austria.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Polemics.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Agent in the secret service of Louis XV.

Summary:

Argument that the defensive treaty between France and Austria dated 1 May 1756 was detrimental to the interests of France. This treatise was circulated widely in manuscript during the Seven Years' War and published anonymously in 1778.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
A note on the title page indicates that this argument was composed and presented after the signing of the treaty in May 1756 and before the invasion by Frederick the Great of Saxony in August 1756 and Bohemia in the spring of 1757; the presence of the note itself, however, suggests that this copy is from 1757 or later.
Collation: Paper, 35; 1⁸ 2¹² 3¹⁰(-10) 4⁶; [i], 1-33, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 28-30 long lines, with a left margin observed for the text but not for notes, which run from edge to edge.
Binding: Four quires sewn together with ribbon.
Origin: Written in France, circa 1757.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1961.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), pp. 71-72 (Ms. French 89).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1017.

OCLC:

155927544

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