See also:

• MESNAGER (or LE MESAGNER), NICOLAS (1658-1714)

MESNAGER (or LE MESAGNER), See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS (1658-1714)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French diplomatist, belonged to a wealthy See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant See also:

• FAMILY

family . He gave up a commercial career for the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, however, and became See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate before the See also:

• PARLEMENT (see PARLIAMENT)

parlement of See also:

• ROUEN

Rouen . In 1700 he was sent as See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy of Rouen to the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce which was established in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris for the See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of French See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . Here he made his See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark, and was chosen to go on three See also:

• MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, between the years 1704 and 1705, to negotiate See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial arrangements . In See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1711 he was sent on a See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret See also:

• MISSION

mission to See also:

• LONDON

London to detach See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England from the See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance against See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and succeeded in securing the See also:

• ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption of eight articles which formed the See also:

• BASE

base of the later Treaty of See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht . As a See also:

• REWARD

reward for his skill he was made one of the three French plenipotentiaries sent to Utrecht in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1712, and had the See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• SIGNING

signing the treaty the next See also:

• YEAR

year . As he had used much of his own large See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune to keep up his See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state as See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador, he was granted a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension by the grateful See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of France . His portrait by Hyacinthe See also:

• RIGAUD, HYACINTHE (1659-1743)

Rigaud is in the See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery of See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles .