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In this essay I will discuss three interrelated problems of French diplomacy in the later years of Louis XIV’s reign: first, the emergence of a bureaucratic hierarchy in the French foreign ministry; secondly, the manner in which the foreign minister collaborated with his commis, or secretaries, in collecting, sorting, evaluating and disseminating information; thirdly, the influence the foreign minister and his associates had on decisions arrived at in Louis XIV’s most important administrative council, the conseil d’en haut.
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J. J. Jusserand, The School for Ambassadors and other Studies (New York, 1925) pp. 3–61
H. M. A. Keens-Soper, ‘The French Political Academy, 1712: ‘A School for Ambassadors’, European Studies Review (1972) 329–55.
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Rule, J.C. (1976). Colbert de Torcy, an Emergent Bureaucracy, and the Formulation of French Foreign Policy, 1698–1715. In: Hatton, R. (eds) Louis XIV and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15659-7_11
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