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Positions Explored and Defined

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As French policy stood in February of 1669, the first of Pomponne’s tasks as ambassador of Louis XIV at The Hague was to keep open the door for renewed amity with the United Provinces. While he was en route to The Hague, Lionne had rushed off to him a reminder that he must try to persuade the Dutch that “the king does not devour lands and states without rhyme or reason” and he underlined the words which summed up the Dutch fears.1

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  1. Lionne to Pomponne, Feb. 15, 1669, Bib. Ars., MS 4712, fo. 20.

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  2. Haje, pp. 78–79. Haje’s comment here that “these are the words of one who knows that war is inevitable and prefers to have it today rather than tomorrow,” is a simple non sequitur. Pomponne believed that Van Beuningen had been influenced by a favorable account of his mission given by a personal friend, Daunoy, before his arrival. Pomponne to Lionne, Feb. 28, 1669, Arch. étr., Holl., vol. 89, fo. 68. Daunoy may have been the mutual friend, whom Haje does not identify.

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  7. This phrase, “Que difficilement pourroit-on croire que la bonne intelligence pût s’accorder longtemps avec tant de sujets, bien que cachés, de la rompre,” is lacking in Mignet’s excerpt from this dispatch (III, 578).

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Rowen, H.H. (1957). Positions Explored and Defined. In: The Ambassador Prepares for War. International Scholars Forum. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4778-3_6

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