A theater of diplomacy : international relations and the performing arts in early modern France /
The seventeenth-century French diplomat Francois de Callieres once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles." The comparison of the diplomat to an actor became commonplace as the practice of diploma...
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: |
Welch, Ellen R.
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Format: | Book
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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Series: | Haney Foundation series.
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