L’Identite du diplomate

Metier ou noble loisir ?

edited by Indravati Felicite, preface by Lucien Bely

Book cover: L’Identite du diplomate

Extent: 490 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History, Social Sciences 

Series: Rencontres

Series volume number: 471, 8

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2020)

ISBN: 9782406104643

Price: $60.00

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Hardback (Published)

(November 2020)

ISBN: 9782406104650

Price: $110.00

On back order

Between the Middle Ages and the nineteentn century the European diplomat is a widely known person who bears a character and whose actions take place in the framework of a specific scenography. This book offers a synthesis of current knowledge about the diplomat’s profession, social position and image.

Lucien Bély, professeur d’histoire moderne à l’université Paris-Sorbonne, s’intéresse à l’histoire de la diplomatie et à la France de l’Ancien Régime. Il a notamment dirigé le Dictionnaire de l’Ancien Régime (Paris, 1996), codirigé l’Histoire de la diplomatie française (Paris, 2005) et publié L’Art de la paix (Paris, 2007), La France au XVIIe siècle (Paris, 2009) et Les secrets de Louis XIV (Paris, 2013).

  • Preface by Lucien Bély
  • Edited by Indravati Felicite