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

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