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An essay on the life and legacy of Étienne François, Duc de Choiseul, a prominent French statesman and diplomat in the 18th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from The Duke De Choiseul: The Lothian Essay, 1908 The Essay has been slightly altered since it was awarded Lord Lothian's prize last year. Most of a thesis presented this year in the Final History School has been embodied in Chapter II; and a considerable amount of matter which, in the original essay, was contained in the notes, is now incor porated with the text. My thanks are due to Professor Gabriel Monod, member of the Institut de France; to Monsieur M. Pallex, of the Lycée louis-le-grand, Paris; to Monsieur Alfred Bourguet, the author of several works on Choiseul's foreign policy; to Mr. E. Barker, Fellow and Lecturer of St. John's College, Oxford; and to Mr. W. L. Grant, Beit Lecturer in Colonial History at Oxford, for suggesting several sources of information that I might otherwise have overlooked. I also owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. J. F. Rees, of Lincoln College, Lecturer at the N ormal College, Bangor, for assistance in the re vision of the original essay, and to my father, to Mr. G. D. Brooks, of Worcester College, and to Mr. D. Ogg, of Lincoln College, for help in the correction of the proofs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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