Title

Nicolas Mesnager: Trade Negotiator

Date of this Version

January 1995

Document Type

Article

Published in:

The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession, edited by Linda Frey and Marsha Frey, pp 283-7. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Abstract

The war of the Spanish Succession was as much about trade in the Spanish colonies as it was about the succession to the Spanish throne. Nicolas Mesnager negotiated for France the trade issues that had to be settled in order to end the war of the Spanish Succession.