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Abbé de Saint Abbé de Saint-Pierre Abrégé du Projet actual possession advantages agree award Banque de France claims commerce complete security confederates conquests Duchess of Orleans Duke of Burgundy duration of peace Emperor Entresol European Diet execution five articles five fundamental articles full security fundamental treaty future differences gloriole Goumy grand alliance grand Allies greatest possible number hope Infra lasting peace latest treaties league Madame de Tencin Madame Geoffrin mediation ment mutual promises Mutually to procure Nations necessary neighbours never number of Sovereigns paix perpétuelle Paris permanent society permanent system perpetual perpétuelle en Europe Pierre Plenipotentiaries plurality of votes politiques preservation Princes Projet de paix PROPOSITION provisionally regulate render peace rendre la paix Republic of Europe revenue Rousseau SECURE THE SIGNATURE securing everlasting peace Senate of Peace sign these five Sovereigns of Europe spite sufficient system of arbitration take up arms title of Projet treaties of Munster truce union
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Page 5 - Abrégé du projet de paix perpétuelle, inventé par le roi Henri le Grand, approuvé par la reine Elisabeth, par le roi Jacques son successeur, par les républiques et par divers autres potentats...
Page 5 - Projet de traite pour rendre la paix perpetuelle entre les souverains chretiens, pour maintenir toujours le commerce libre entre les nations, pour affermir beaucoup d'avantage les maisons souveraines sur le tröne.
Page 5 - Propose autrefois par Henry le Grand, roy de France; agree par la reine Elisabeth, par Jacques I, Roi d'Angleterre, son successeur et par la plupart des autres Potentats d'Europe.
Page 19 - The grand Allies have renounced, and renounce for ever, for themselves and for their successors, resort to arms in order to terminate their differences present and future, and agree henceforth always to adopt the method of conciliation by mediation of the rest of the grand Allies in the place of general assembly, or, in case this mediation should not be successful, they agree to abide by the judgment which shall be rendered by the Plenipotentiaries of the other Allies permanently assembled, provisionally...
Page 21 - ... the grand alliance will arm, and will proceed against him until he shall execute the said judgments or rules, or give security to make good the harm caused by his hostilities, and to repay the cost of the war according to the estimate of the Commissioners of the grand alliance.
Page 20 - Judges will not depart, or will only very slighdy depart, from justice, even in their provisional awards. And this security ought to afford peace of mind to every reasonable person, since there is nothing important left to regulate, and that which remains will never be regulated in a way far removed from justice. The unsuccessful litigant has even the hope of a favourable award five years later, when final judgment is delivered. 4. There will be nothing important in future to regulate between Sovereigns,...
Page 10 - Europe through their Plenipotentiaries in permanent congress, people have also begun to recognise as possible and real the great advantages, and in consequence the very desirable compensations, which would accrue to each Sovereign, in place of his claims, by means of a certain peace, and general and perpetual alliance for the preservation to each of the allies of the territory and all the rights whi(h they actually possess under the latest treaties.
Page 5 - Les Français à la recherche d'une Société des nations, depuis le roi Henri IV jusqu'aux combattants de 1914; textes choisis et mis en ordre. Paris, « Civilisation française ». 1920.
Page 21 - ... of society. Like children, they need the prospect of punishment, certain, near, and sufficient, awaiting anyone who shall violate the fundamental laws. FIFTH FUNDAMENTAL ARTICLE. The Allies agree that the Plenipotentiaries shall regulate finally, by a plurality of voices in their permanent assembly, all articles which may be necessary and important to procure to the grand alliance more coherence, more security, and all other possible advantages.
Page 41 - One of these was the argument that 'great institutions are only gradually made' and that 'we must endure more than one hundred years yet of war in Europe, and in consequence more than two hundred years of sovereignty, before all rulers become fully convinced that no league, no alliance, can be lasting without a permanent arbitration'.40 In this remark we have not only a further illustration of his inconsistency about sovereignty, an admission that that sovereignty which he had assured princes they...