The research about French diplomatic policy in the 1780s through historical materials

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26370878
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	History of Europe and America
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	Morihara Takashi 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (70183663)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords	ヴェルジェンヌ / フランス革命 / アメリカ独立戦争 / フランス外交 / 外務大臣 / 近世ポルトガル / 絶対王政 / ショワズール / オスマン帝国 / フランス外務省
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This research studies about the pre-modern French diplomatic policy, especially the counter-one against the Great Britain and the United States of America, through the French diplomatic documents, resources and manuscripts. The comte de Vergenne is known as a great foreign minister of this period of the 1780s. But in our country, there are few studies about his career and achievements. So, this is almost the first research to deal with this lesser-unknown aspect and critical part he played in French diplomacy. I investigated about his diplomatic career and ideas by way of visiting the historical sites and analyzing historical materials in Istanbul(the Ottoman Empire), Lisbon, Warszawa, Madrid and Paris.