Memoires et instructions pour les ambassadeurs : ou lettres et negotiations de Walsingham, ministre & secretaire d'état, sous Elisabeth, reine d'Angleterre, avec les maximes politiques de ce ministre, & des remarques sur la vie des principaux ministres & favoris de cette princesse. Traduit de l'anglois
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Type of record: Book
Title: Memoires et instructions pour les ambassadeurs : ou lettres et negotiations de Walsingham, ministre & secretaire d'état, sous Elisabeth, reine d'Angleterre, avec les maximes politiques de ce ministre, & des remarques sur la vie des principaux ministres & favoris de cette princesse. Traduit de l'anglois
Other titles: Compleat ambassador
Classmark: Anglo-French 5 1700/DIG
Creator(s): Digges, Sir Dudley (1583-1639)
Additional creator(s): Boulesteis de La Contie, Louis (Other); Walsingham, Sir Francis (1530?-1590) (Other)
Related people: Boulesteis de La Contie, Louis; Walsingham, Francis
Publisher: Chez George Gallet
Publication city: A Amsterdam
Date(s): 1700
Language: French
Size and medium: [12], 500, [4], 503-662 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/260501
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016702789705181
Description
First published in English with title: The Compleat ambassador.
Edited by Sir Dudley Digges. Translated by Louis Boulesteis de la Contie.
Pages 1-500, a translation of Sir Dudley Digges' Compleat ambassador; p. 501-569, a reprint of "Secret des cours, ou Les memoires de Walsingham", Cologne, 1695, which was a re-translation into French from an English translation of pt. 2 of the original French work by Eustache Du Refuge, first published anonymously at Paris, 1617, with title, Traité de la cour; p. 570-645, Remarques sur la vie des ministres & des favoris de la reine Elisabeth... tirées des meilleurs historiens, different from the 1695 translation of Naunton's Fragmenta regalia.
Includes index.
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