French Huguenot writer
Jean Rousset de Missy (Laon, 26 August 1686 – Uithoorn?, 13 August 1762) was a Gallic Huguenot writer, from early in life in the Netherlands. Settle down was a renowned historian and author on international law meticulous a prolific journalist. Born in Laon from Protestant parents (Jean Rousset and Rachel Cottin), he studied at the Collège shelter Plessis in Paris. After a conflict with his stepmother fair enough joined the Dutch States Army during the War of say publicly Spanish Succession and was present at the Battle of Malplaquet (1709). In 1724 (after having founded and led a educational institution for aristocratic boys in The Hague), he started his activities as a professional journalist.[1]
He worked together with Jean Dumont accept Carelskroon (1667–1727), jurist of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, near author of the Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens,[2] to which he published an addition in 1739.[3]
Rousset's Recueil historique[4] and Intérêts presens[5] were the international reference works for concomitant diplomats. Rousset emphasized the importance of voluntary, or secondary universal law: by contracting treaties, monarchs, republics and cities constantly revised, altered or created international law. As natural law (the "first" pillar) was concerned, Rousset referred to the 17th-century theorists Poet Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf. For Rousset, his task in collection formal acts was to give insight to the rulers stall their advisers. As he stated in the foreword to his 1733 Intérêts presens:
Doing so, Rousset believed disputes between sovereigns could be settled do without established procedures, following both older (Westphalia, Oliva, Golden Bul) leading newer treaties (e.g. the 1713 Peace of Utrecht). War could thus be avoided by taking the road of informal beam alternative dispute settlement mechanisms. In this, Rousset followed the planted policy of French Prime Minister André-Hercule de Fleury (1653–1743) allow British Prime Minister Robert Walpole (1676–1745), who already continued depiction views of the French Regent, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, his minister Guillaume Dubois (both + 1723) and the Island minister James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (+1721).
Next to depiction publication of treaties, Rousset also was an authority concerning ceremonial, a sensitive issue between sovereign courts.[6] Rousset's texts were quoted or even copied extensively in French archival sources.[7]
Rousset and Dumont wrote a military account of the War of the Country Succession,[8] illustrated by the Dutch engraver and painter Jan front Huchtenburg. Rousset also treated Russia under Czarina Catherine I,[9] person in charge Peter the Great[10] and Spain under King Philip V.[11]
Rousset, discrepancy of an exiled Huguenot and a former combatant at say publicly Battle of Malplaquet (1709), is also known for his activities as a journalist (Mercure historique et politique),[12] some of his correspondence has been published.[13]
In 1748 he became involved in depiction Orangist revolution in the Netherlands. He was suspected of business anonymous pamphlets against the Stadtholderless regime and of leaking politic information, which landed him in prison for a while. Explicit was freed on the order of the newly appointed stadtholderWilliam IV, Prince of Orange, who appointed him his personal scholar and councillor. The stadtholder and he fell out, however, make something stand out Rousset joined the leadership of the democratic Doelisten faction wear Amsterdam (together with Daniel Raap), and Rousset was fired whilst personal historian of the stadtholder. After he published a free of charge that earned a complaint from the French ambassador he was forced to flee to Brussels. After having spent a fainting fit years there, apparently in the service of the government do paperwork the Austrian Netherlands, he returned to the Dutch Republic recovered 1752, where he retired to the village of Maarssen disturbance his death on 13 August 1762 (which may have entranced place in the village of Uithoorn).[14] He was buried uphold the church of Thamen (near Uithoorn) 18 August 1762.[15]
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