La mission de Jean-Baptiste Nothomb à Paris d'août 1866
(2015) Revue d’Histoire Diplomatique — Vol. 129, n° 1, p. 5-20 (2015)
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- (en) The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the various diplomatic negotiations which it resulted in profoundly changed the balance of power in Europe, and fed the old fantasy of the Rhine borders in the entourage of Napoleon III. The Belgian government, who knew that Belgium was directly threatened by French ambitions, had maintained until early August a calm and serene abstention policy towards external events. But Benedetti’s approaches to Bismarck encouraged some politicians to promote a more vigorous diplomatic policy. Jean-Baptiste Nothomb’s mission in Paris is the concrete result of this situation, and sheds light not only on the real objectives of the Belgian diplomacy, but also and above all on oppositions, power games and secret arrangements that marked the relationship between the various members of the Government, the Royal Palace and the Belgian diplomatic corps.
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Chevalier, C. (2015). La mission de Jean-Baptiste Nothomb à Paris d’août 1866. Revue d’Histoire Diplomatique, 129(1), 5-20. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/33893 (Original work published 2015)