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Secrets and Offers in Wartime Negotiations
The document discusses French diplomacy and bribery surrounding Dunkirk and Naples. It cites letters from Lewis XIV and Torcy, detailing payments to influence peace talks, with offers to Marlborough and demands to preserve Dunkirk, Naples, Sicily, and Strasbourg, including sums reaching up to four million livres. Memoires de Torcy, tom II. p. 237.
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Jades
Lewis XIV
Dunkirk
Clarendon
Stephen Fox
France
Duke of Aarlborough
Torcy
AupiTor
Duke of Marlborough
Naples
Sicily
Strath
Strasburg
Landau
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Duke of
Aarlborough