CHAPTER: "De La Haye à Cambrai: Lenteur et impatience de la pacification entre métropoles et congrès (1720-1725)", in: Eric SCHNAKENBOURG (dir.), Le traité de Nystad et l’établissement de la paix en Europe dans les années 1720 [Enquêtes et Documents - Echanges, relations internationales & histoire du monde atlantique; 77] (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024), 167-184, ISBN 9782753598089, € 22

 

Abstract:

At the end of the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), a general congress was convened to secure a permanent peace treaty between the Emperor and Philip V. The Congress of Cambrai, like the Congress of Soissons, was distinctive because it was held in the countryside, at a discreet distance from any major court or metropolis. The French and British mediators were theoretically supposed to act as neutral powers and guarantors of the Treaty of London (2 August 1718). However, Spanish trade had significant leverage. Philip V attempted to circumvent the treaty by sidelining the Emperor’s mediators. Although the theatres of the Great Northern War and the grievances from the War of the Spanish Succession were separate, the clash between the alliances of Vienna (April/May 1725) and Hanover (September 1725) drew Russia, Sweden, and Denmark into a new cycle of negotiation.

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