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Vergennes arrived in Constantinople as the Seven Years War was brewing and a new monarch Osman III had recently come to the throne.
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Vergennes and Constantinople
Although he thought the strategy unwise, Vergennes continuously advocated war in Constantinople by trying to convince that Ottomans that war was the only way to check Russia's rising power.
** L. Bonneville de Marsangy, Le Chevalier de Vergennes, son ambassade a Constantinople ( Paris, 1894 ) and Le Chevalier de Vergennes, son ambassade en Suède ( Paris, 1898 ).
* A. Gautier, " Anne Duvivier, comtesse de Vergennes ( 1730-1798 ), ambassadrice de France à Constantinople ", in Le Bulletin, Association des anciens élèves, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales ( INALCO ), November 2005, pp. 43 – 60.
France undertook, moreover, to pay the outstanding subsidies to Sweden, amounting to one and a half millions of livres annually, beginning from January 1772 ; and Vergennes, one of the great names of French diplomacy, was to be sent to circumvent the designs of Russia at Stockholm as he had previously circumvented them at Constantinople.
Vergennes and Seven
In the spring of 1776, Vergennes, the Foreign Secretary, saw an opportunity to humiliate France's long-standing enemy, Great Britain, as well as recover territory lost during the Seven Years ' War, by supporting the American Revolution.
Vergennes hoped that by giving French aid to the American rebels, he would be able to weaken Britain's dominance of the international stage in the wake of their victory in the Seven Years War.
Towards the end of the Seven Years War, Vergennes tackled several new problems.
Vergennes ' rivalry with the British, and his desire to avenge the disasters of the Seven Years ' War, led to his support of the Thirteen Colonies in the American War of Independence.
Vergennes and War
The objective of Chavigny and Vergennes in Lisbon was to keep Portugal from entering the War of the Austrian Succession on the side of Britain, a task that proved relatively easy as the Portuguese had little interest in joining the war.
In spite of his doubts, Vergennes was successful in persuading the Ottomans to declare war against Russia, and in 1768 the Russo-Turkish War broke out.
Vergennes acted as an intermediary in the War of the Bavarian Succession between Austria and Prussia, which he feared could trigger a major European war.
* Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes ( 1717-1787 ), French statesman and diplomat who directed his country during the American War of Independence
Vergennes and was
It was further exacerbated by Vergennes ' prodding Louis XVI to get involved in Great Britain's war with its North American colonies, due to France's traditional rivalry with Great Britain.
Instead, after the death of the comte de Maurepas, the influence of Vergennes was strengthened, and she was again left out of political affairs.
The 50th Anniversary was celebrated at a Senior Girl Scout Roundup held at Button Bay in Vergennes, Vermont in 1962.
On arriving in Paris, Deane at once opened negotiations with the Comte de Vergennes who was the French Foreign Minister.
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes ( 20 December 1717 – 13 February 1787 ) was a French statesman and diplomat.
In 1743 Vergennes accompanied his uncle to the court of Charles VII who was the ruler of Bavaria and also held the title of Holy Roman Emperor.
In November 1745 Chavigny was relieved of his post, and returned to France accompanied by Vergennes.
In 1750 Vergennes was appointed as Ambassador to the Electorate of Trier, one of the smaller German electorates.
Vergennes appointment was designed to frustrate the British plan, and Trier was considered a good strategic spot for this mission.
In April 1752 Vergennes was appointed as envoy to George II of Great Britain in his separate role as Elector of Hanover.
The Congress was regarded as a diplomatic triumph for Vergennes and he received praise from Newcastle for his skills.
To counter a last attempt by Austria to get an agreement, Vergennes was sent to the Palatine in January 1753 where he secured confirmation that they would stick to France's strategy.
The reason for Vergennes ' original lesser rank was because sending a new ambassador was a time-consuming elaborate ceremony and there was a sense of urgency because of the death of the previous ambassador.
In his official orders Vergennes was ordered not to agree any treaty, but he received secret instructions from the King to agree a treaty if it supported the King's schemes in Eastern Europe.
A dramatic reversal of Russian policies following the succession of Peter III forced Vergennes to return to his previous policy of encouraging anti-Russian sentiment, only to change again when Peter was overthrown by his wife Catherine.
The Treaty of Paris in 1763, brought an end to the war but France was forced to cede significant territory to the British easing some of the strains on Vergennes.
In France Vergennes encountered strong disapproval for his marriage and was aware that he returned home in disgrace.
Vergennes and new
In 1777, Vergennes informed the Americans ' commissioners that France acknowledged the United States, and was willing to form an offensive and defensive alliance with the new state.
Vergennes and Osman
Audience of Charles de Vergennes with Sultan Osman III in 1755, Pera Museum, Istanbul.
Audience of French ambassador Charles de Vergennes with Sultan Osman III in 1755.
Vergennes and III
Although Vergennes had long planned to enter the war jointly with Spain, Charles III was more interested in mediating the dispute, as he did not want to encourage colonial revolts.
Thus d ' Aiguillon was blamed for having provoked the coup d ' état of Gustavus III, king of Sweden, in 1772, although the instructions of the comte de Vergennes, the French ambassador in Sweden, had been written by the minister, the Duc de la Vrillère.
Vergennes and had
Louis, who had been influenced as a child by anti-Austrian sentiments in the court, blocked many of her candidates, including Choiseul, from taking important positions, aided and abetted by his two most important ministers, Chief Minister Maurepas and Foreign Minister Vergennes.
He had an elder brother Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, born in 1718, who eventually inherited the family estates.
Vergennes also had to deal with the consequences of the theft of the Sultan's flagship by Christian prisoners, who took it to Malta.
This seriously undermined Vergennes ' plans, as he had anticipated a swift and simple war against the British.
This presented a major problem to Vergennes, as his treaty of alliance with the Spanish had committed the French to keep fighting until Gibraltar was under Spanish control.
During 1782, Vergennes committed French troops to put down a democratic revolution in the Republic of Geneva, which had broken out the previous year.
By 1782 Vergennes was growing increasingly frustrated by what he regarded as the inability of the United States to justify its use of the large sums of money which France had given them.
When Vergennes discovered in November 1782 that the Americans had concluded a separate peace with the British, he felt betrayed, as they had previously agreed that a joint peace would be negotiated between them.
In light of the generous terms that Britain had granted to the United States, although they refused to cede Canada, Vergennes remarked, " The English buy peace rather than make it.
Vergennes claimed that France's limited gains justified his position that their participation had been disinterested.
Vergennes ' diplomatic moves following the French entry into the war also had material impact on the later entry of the Dutch Republic into the war, and declarations of neutrality on the part of other important geopolitical players like Russia.
On the accession of Louis XVI, Denon was transferred to Sweden ; but he returned, after a brief interval, to Paris with the ambassador M. de Vergennes, who had been appointed foreign minister.
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