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AARSSENS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 4 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AARSSENS  ,.or AARSSEN, See also:

FRANCIS See also:VAN (1572-1641), a celebrated diplomatist and statesman of the See also:United Provinces . His talents commended him to the See also:notice of See also:Advocate Johan van See also:Oldenbarneveldt, who sent him, at the See also:age 'of 26 years, as a See also:diplomatic See also:agent of the states-See also:general to the See also:court of See also:France . He took a considerable See also:part in the negotiations of the twelve years' truce in 16o6 . His conduct of affairs having displeased the See also:French See also:king, he was recalled from his See also:post by Oldenbarneveldt in 1616 . Such was the hatred he henceforth conceived against his former benefactor, that he did his very utmost to effect his ruin . He was one of the packed court of See also:judges who in 1619 condemned the aged statesman to See also:death . For his See also:share in this judicial See also:murder a deep stain rests on the memory of Aarssens . He afterwards be-came the confidential counsellor of See also:Maurice, See also:prince of See also:Orange, and afterwards of See also:Frederick See also:Henry, prince of Orange, in their conduct of the See also:foreign affairs of the See also:republic . He was sent on See also:special embassies to See also:Venice, See also:Germany and See also:England, and displayed so much diplomatic skill and finesse that See also:Richelieu ranked him among the three greatest politicians of his See also:time .

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