Hugo Grotius, the Dutch prodigy who founded modern international law, was imprisoned in Holland’s religious quarrels, escaped in a chest of books, and later served Sweden as ambassador to France. Burigny’s eighteenth-century life gives the fullest attention to the two subjects earlier biographers neglected: his diplomatic negotiations and his religious opinions, with a critical account of his works.
A detailed early biography for readers of legal history and seventeenth-century diplomacy. Download the free EPUB.