wiquefort

Updated: May 22, 2025

"My greatest relief from the languors of the Court, he writes to Schmalz , is the conversation of men of learning, to whom I chearfully give all the time that I can spare from business." Wiquefort Ambas. l. 1. p. 95. Ep. 368. p. 134. Ep. 373. p. 136.

M. de (Jean Lévesque) Burigny - The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works

I do not know what another lady will say to Choiseul on the late behaviour of his friend, the Ambassador, here. As the adventure will make a chapter in the new edition of Wiquefort, and, consequently, will strike you, I will give you the detail. At the ball on the King's birthday, Count Czernichew was sitting in the box of the Foreign Ministers next to Count Seilern, the Imperial Ambassador.

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II