Secretary of foreign affairs

In France

Under the Old Mode, the Secretary of State of the Foreign affairs is the adviser of the king about the foreign relations between France and the other States and person in charge of the department of the Foreign affairs.

It was often created Minister of state at the time of his taking up the duties since the Council of In-high treated mainly diplomacy. However the nomination is not automatic: one thus lives of 1696 to 1699 Torcy to hold the load of Secretary of State without being a minister while his/her father-in-law Pomponne reported the businesses to the Council.

Under the Polysynodie (1715 - 1718), the person in charge of the foreign affairs is not a Secretary of State, but a “council of the foreign affairs”.

Like all the Secretaries of State, the Secretary of State of the Foreign affairs was in parallel in charge of the administration of certain interior provinces. Nevertheless, starting from 1747, several Secretaries of State obtained to be discharged from this task considered as subordinate.

List Secretaries of State of the Foreign affairs

See the article List of the French Ministers for the Foreign affairs, section Old Mode.

See too

Secretary of State (Old Mode)

In the United Kingdom

French translation of the British load of Secretary off State for Foreign Affairs or Foreign Secretary , on which depends the relations between the British Crown and the other kingdoms and republics. The expression dates from the war of Indépendance of the United States of America, when at the time of the reform of the administration of 1782 the State Departments of the Businesses of the South and North amalgamated.

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