{"product_id":"charles-gravier-comte-de-vergennes-orville-t-murphy-9780873954839","title":"Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes: French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first complete study of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, one of the most distinguished diplomats and statesmen of eighteenth-century France. Vergennes represented France as a diplomat in Germany, Constantinople, and Stockholm, and was Louis XVI's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Orville Murphy traces Vergennes' career as he steadily rose from the provincial nobility of the robe to the ranks of the court aristocracy; from the post of an obscure diplomat to the lofty position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Murphy, however, has written much more than an interesting biography. The book develops a link between diplomatic personalities, the foreign policies of the French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, and the contemporary social, economic, and political problems during much of the eighteenth century. Indeed, Vergennes and his policies are central to any study of the American Revolution, the underlying causes of the French Revolution, and of the subsequent \"Age of Revolutions\" in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Orville T. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0873954831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780873954839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.90w x 1.50d","brand":"Orville T. Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065221624063,"sku":"9780873954839","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42584fcb-73e9-4561-9d50-dd714bb7f15e.jpg?v=1768673780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charles-gravier-comte-de-vergennes-orville-t-murphy-9780873954839","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}