Présentation

The relations between the General Estates of the Netherlands and the French monarchy allow to study the practices surrounding contested subjectivity in the area of diplomacy and international relations. From the 1570s to the 1600s, agents of the General Estates, rebels against the King of Spain, were regularly received at the French court, where they came to ask for help in their struggle. Henri III then Henri IV received them with complex, malleable and ambivalent symbolic systems, constantly reformulated according to the international situation.

The French monarchy aimed at recognizing a certain Dutch political subjectivity while seeking to minimize the scandal caused by such receptions, because of the criticisms levelled by Spanish and papal diplomats, who regularly accused the French king of being too indulgent towards rebels. This situation reveals the symbolic, doctrinal and legal nuances of an early modern international life in which non-state actors sometimes played a crucial role.

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Frederik Dhondt, Rebels, Exiles and Pirates in Context. Flexible Labels in the Aftermath of the Peace of Utrecht (1713-1720)

Alberto Carrera, Tra dovere di obbedienza e diritto di resistenza. La figura del ribelle nel pensiero giuridico di Vattel

Antonio Trampus, Soggettività contestata e cultura dell’esilio