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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESNAGER (or LE MESAGNER), NICOLAS (1658-1714)  , French diplomatist, belonged to a wealthy merchant
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family . He gave up a commercial career for the law, however, and became advocate before the parlement of
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Rouen . In 1700 he was sent as deputy of Rouen to the council of commerce which was established in Paris for the extension of French trade . Here he made his mark, and was chosen to go on three missions to Spain, between the years 1704 and 1705, to negotiate
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financial arrangements . In August 1711 he was sent on a secret
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mission to
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London to detach England from the
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alliance against France, and succeeded in securing the adoption of eight articles which formed the
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base of the later Treaty of Utrecht . As a
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reward for his skill he was made one of the three French plenipotentiaries sent to Utrecht in
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January 1712, and had the honour of
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signing the treaty the next
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year . As he had used much of his own large fortune to keep up his state as ambassador, he was granted a pension by the grateful king of France . His portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud is in the gallery of
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Versailles .

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