François de Callières

François de Callières , or Caillières , born the May 14th 1645 with Thorigny and dead the March 4th 1717 with Paris, is a Diplomate and man of letters French. Its principal work, In the manner of negotiating with the sovereigns , became at the 20th traditional century international of the Négociation, thus passing from the sphere of the Diplomatie to that of the Management.

Its life and its work

Wire of Jacques de Callières, governor of Cherbourg and itself author of the Fortune of people of quality and the particular gentlemen, teaching art of living at the court according to the maxims of the policy and morals , François de Callières is in charge at the 22 years age of a first diplomatic mission aiming at establishing the duke of Longueville on the throne of Poland. But this last is killed in 1672 while passing the the Rhine. François de Callières carries out then several other missions for the account of European sovereigns. He writes news and makes appear in 1688 a work on the Querelle of Old and Modern the. The same year, a panegyric of the king is worth to him to be allowed with the French Academy. Two other works follow on the “witty remarks” and the “good use”, whose second will be a certain success. In 1697 takes place the most important mission of its career: with Louis de Verjus and Nicolas Auguste de Harlay-Bonneuil, François de Callières is one of the three plenipotentiary ones of Louis XIV which signs the Traité of Ryswick. Of return in France, it is named secretary of the cabinet of the king. He attends Saint-Simon, which evokes it in its Mémoires and admires its talents. With died of Louis XIV, it writes for the Régent a long letter on the importance of the negotiation which, published in 1716, will become In the manner of negotiating with the sovereigns :

Any Prince Chrétien must have as a principal maxim to use the weapons to support and take advantage of his rights, only after having tried and having exhausted that of the reason and persuasion, and it is of its interest to still join to it that of the benefits which is surest of all the means to strengthen and increase its power; but it is necessary that it serf of good workmen who can implement them to gain the hearts to him and them volontez itself men, and it is in that principalemant that the science of the negotiation consists.

Right before its death in 1717, François de Callières written Of the science of the world and knowledge useful for the control of the life in addition to In the manner of negotiating with the sovereigns . Very early translated into English, this last work was particularly snuffed in the Anglo-Saxon world, inter alia by Thomas Jefferson and Harold Nicolson. John Kenneth Galbraith declared as for him that all that needed to be said on the negotiation had been known as in this book.

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