BOOK REVIEW: Review of RULE (John C.) & TROTTER (Ben S.), Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy and the Rise of the Information State, Kingston/Montréal, McGill/Queen's UP, 2014, XVII + 829 p. ISBN 9780773543706". Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, XCLIII (2015), No. 2, pp. 555-561 (ISSN 0035-0818)

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This week, the Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis published the second issue of its 93th volume, containing (inter alia):

• My article on the legal and diplomatic background of the Ostend Company quarrel (1722-1727) (see earlier on this blog) (pp. 397-437)
• A book review on the work by the late John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter on Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy and the French Foreign Office under Louis XIV (pp. 555-561). For more information on the book, see the publisher's website.

These articles will become available on the free online platform Persée, with a moving wall. Indexes for the journal can be found on its website.