Authors: L. G. Wickham Legg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-18 - Publisher: Forgotten Books
Excerpt from British Diplomatic Instructions: 1689-1789; France, 1689-1721 N the eighteenth century, as the elder Horace Walpole was fond of remarking, Paris was the centre of all the business of Europe, and this, coupled with its proximity to London, which was not more than five days' journey distant, involved the