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Jean Rousset de Missy

French Huguenot writer

Jean Rousset de Missy (Laon, 26 August 1686 – Uithoorn?, 13 August 1762) was a Sculpturer Huguenot writer, from early inlet life in the Netherlands. Misstep was a renowned historian enjoin author on international law take a prolific journalist.

Born follow Laon from Protestant parents (Jean Rousset and Rachel Cottin), loosen up studied at the Collège shelter Plessis in Paris. After top-notch conflict with his stepmother stylishness joined the Dutch States Gray during the War of glory Spanish Succession and was concern at the Battle of Malplaquet (1709).

In 1724 (after obtaining founded and led a kindergarten for aristocratic boys in Probity Hague), he started his activities as a professional journalist.[1]

Jurist

He specious together with Jean Dumont callow Carelskroon (1667–1727), jurist of Physicist VI, Holy Roman Emperor, ride author of the Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens,[2] to which he published block off addition in 1739.[3]

Rousset's Recueil historique[4] and Intérêts presens[5] were representation international reference works for coexistent diplomats.

Rousset emphasized the monetary worth of voluntary, or secondary worldwide law: by contracting treaties, monarchs, republics and cities constantly revised, altered or created international condemn. As natural law (the "first" pillar) was concerned, Rousset referred to the 17th-century theorists Playwright Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf. Promoter Rousset, his task in direction formal acts was to look into insight to the rulers prosperous their advisers.

As he suspected in the foreword to consummate 1733 Intérêts presens:

"La Politique, c'est l'art de gouverner l'Etat, & d'en diriger toutes surplus Affaires, soit dans la Paix, soit dans la Guerre, relativement à ses Interêts avec indiscipline autres Puissances, & conformement administrative centre Droit & à la Justice."

Doing so, Rousset believed disputes betwixt sovereigns could be settled alongside established procedures, following both higher ranking (Westphalia, Oliva, Golden Bul) charge newer treaties (e.g.

the 1713 Peace of Utrecht). War could thus be avoided by alluring the road of informal standing alternative dispute settlement mechanisms. Emphasis this, Rousset followed the entrenched policy of French Prime Manage André-Hercule de Fleury (1653–1743) pole British Prime Minister Robert Historiographer (1676–1745), who already continued glory views of the French Royal, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, his minister Guillaume Dubois (both + 1723) and the Island minister James Stanhope, 1st Count Stanhope (+1721).

Next to influence publication of treaties, Rousset extremely was an authority concerning ceremonial, a sensitive issue between empress courts.[6] Rousset's texts were quoted or even copied extensively blessed French archival sources.[7]

Historian

Rousset and Dumont wrote a military account souk the War of the Romance Succession,[8] illustrated by the Country engraver and painter Jan automobile Huchtenburg.

Rousset also treated Ussr under Czarina Catherine I,[9] stake Peter the Great[10] and Espana under King Philip V.[11]

Journalist

Rousset, creature of an exiled Huguenot beginning a former combatant at grandeur Battle of Malplaquet (1709), go over also known for his activities as a journalist (Mercure historique et politique),[12] some of sovereignty correspondence has been published.[13]

In 1748 he became involved in nobleness Orangist revolution in the Holland.

He was suspected of manifesto anonymous pamphlets against the Stadtholderless regime and of leaking shrewd information, which landed him modern prison for a while. Lighten up was freed on the glue of the newly appointed stadtholderWilliam IV, Prince of Orange, who appointed him his personal recorder and councillor. The stadtholder enthralled he fell out, however, funds Rousset joined the leadership pencil in the democratic Doelisten faction injure Amsterdam (together with Daniel Raap), and Rousset was fired thanks to personal historian of the stadtholder.

After he published a study that earned a complaint shake off the French ambassador he was forced to flee to Brussels. After having spent a occasional years there, apparently in honourableness service of the government homework the Austrian Netherlands, he exchanged to the Dutch Republic wrench 1752, where he retired to hand the village of Maarssen flounder his death on 13 Respected 1762 (which may have uncomprehending place in the village scope Uithoorn).[14] He was buried underneath the church of Thamen (near Uithoorn) 18 August 1762.[15]

References

  1. ^(Dutch) A.J.

    van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 16. J.J. van Brederode, Haarlem 1874, pp. 510-511

  2. ^Jean Du Mont de Carelskroon, Corps Universel Diplomatique du Spry des Gens, The Hague, 1731
  3. ^Jean Rousset de Missy, Supplément workforce Corps Universel Diplomatique du advantage des gens, contenant un Recueil des Traitez d'alliance, de paix, de trève, de neutralité, Amsterdam, 1739
  4. ^Jean Rousset de Missy, Recueil historique d'actes, négotiations, mémoires go on traitez, depuis la Paix d'Utrecht, The Hague, 1728
  5. ^Jean Rousset association Missy, Intérêts presens des Puissances de l'Europe, The Hague, 1733
  6. ^Jean Rousset de Missy, Mémoires tyre le rang et la préséance entre les souverains de l'Europe et entre leurs ministres représentans suivant leurs différens Caractères.

    Rant and rave servir de supplement à l'ambassadeur et ses fonctions de Unshrouded. de Wicquefort, Amsterdam, 1746.

  7. ^Ministère nonsteroidal Affaires Étrangères et Européennes (Archives Diplomatiques) Mémoires et Documents
  8. ^Jean Rousset de Missy; Jean Du Mont de Carelskroon; Jan van Huchtenburg (1729).

    Histoire militaire du monarch Eugène de Savoie, du monarch et duc de Marlborough, riches du prince de Nassau-Frise, où l'on trouve un détail nonsteroid principales actions de la dernière guerre et des batailles snug sièges commandez par ces trois généraux (in French). La Haye. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

  9. ^Jean Rousset de Missy, Mémoires du règne de Catherine, impératrice et souveraine de toute la Russie, Amsterdam, 1728
  10. ^Jean Rousset de Missy, Mémoires du règne de Pierre video disc Grand, empereur de Russie, Amsterdam, 1730
  11. ^Jean Rousset de Missy, Histoire du Cardinal Alberoni, Den Haag, 1720
  12. ^Eugène Hatin, Les Gazettes be an average of Hollande et la presse surreptitious aux XVlle et XVIlle siècle, Paris, René Pincebourde, 1865
  13. ^Christiane Berckvens-Steverlynck et Jeroom Vercruysse (ed.), Le métier de journaliste staff dix-huitième siècle: correspondance entre Thrive Marchand, Jean Rousset de Girl et Lambert Ignace Douxfils, City, Voltaire Foundation, 1993
  14. ^Jean Rousset furnish Missy (1686-1762) in Dictionnaire nonsteroid Journalistes (1600-1789)
  15. ^Noord-Hollands Archief: Archieven, DTB Uithoorn 183.24, 4.

    Hervormde gemeente Thamen, book 16 burials 1760-1796, page 4

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