Entre droit privé et droit International: la Succession d’Espagne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles (Between Private and International Law: The Spanish Succession, 17th-18th Century)

Cahiers du centre de recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions: Histoire(s) du droit, dir. Marie Moulart et Emmanuël Falzone. n°. 35-36 (2011), pp. 61-102 (ISSN 1370-2262)

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Frederik Dhondt

Research Group CORE (Contextual Research in Law); Legal History Institute/Gustave Rolin Jaequemyns Institute of International Law (GRILI)

Date Written: September 5, 2010

Abstract

French Abstract: La succession d'Espagne a tenu en haleine l’Europe tout au long du règne de Louis XIV impliquant la souveraineté sur les royaumes d’Espagne, les colonies en Amérique, de grandes parties de l’Italie et les Pays-Bas méridionaux, elle affectait tout le système diplomatique. De ce fait, elle a figuré (et reste) au programme de recherche de nombreux historiens politiques.

Cependant, le rôle du droit dans l’argumentation des deux acteurs antagonistes, le roi de France Louis XIV et les empereurs Léopold Ier, Joseph Ier et Charles VI, n’a fait l’objet d’analyses que très récemment. À travers les sources éditées, la correspondance diplomatique et la littérature, les positions évoluent sur le plan conceptuel, allant du droit privé au droit international, qui s’avéra le seul discours apte à capter les réalités systémiques de la Société des Princes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

English Abstract:The Succession to the Spanish throne held European courts in suspense all along Louis XIV's reign. The inter-state system was profoundly affected, since the question concerned sovereignty over the kingdoms of Spain, the American colonies, substantial parts of Italy as well as the Southern Netherlands. Consequently, the struggle for the Spanish throne has traditionally figured on the research agenda of numerous political historians.

However, the role of law in argumentation between the two principal opponents, Louis XIV of France and Emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles has only been very recently brought into a global analysis. Published sources as well as manuscript diplomatic sources and literature show how positions evolved on a conceptual level, from private to public international law. The latter would prove the only discourse capable to encompass the systemic realities of the "Society of Princes" of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Keywords: History of International Law, European History, Early Modern History, International Relations

JEL Classification: K33, N43

Suggested Citation

Dhondt, Frederik, Entre droit privé et droit International: la Succession d’Espagne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles (Between Private and International Law: The Spanish Succession, 17th-18th Century) (September 5, 2010). Cahiers du centre de recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions: Histoire(s) du droit, dir. Marie Moulart et Emmanuël Falzone. n°. 35-36 (2011), pp. 61-102 (ISSN 1370-2262), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2569047

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