ARTICLE: Frederik DHONDT, "Le savoir politique contre les préjugés. Antoine II Pecquet et son Esprit des maximes politiques (1757)” [Special Issue "Diplomatie et Lumières", ed. Jean-Charles SPEECKAERT] (Études sur le XVIIIe siècle LII (2025), 37-59)

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Prof. Frederik Dhondt published an article in a thematic issue on diplomacy and Enlightenment in Études sur le XVIIIe Siècle, edited by dr. Jean-Charles Speeckaert. 

Abstract:
This contribution discusses Antoine II Pecquet's 1757 Esprit des Maximes Politiques pour servir de suite à l'Esprit des Loix du Président de Montesquieu, from the point of view of eighteenth-century in-house foreign office legal advice. It was presented in draft at the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Augsburg, June 2023) and at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Rome, July 2023). Pecquet notably refers to Montesquieu, but even more to Grotius.

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