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Folio 240: Waldegrave to Newcastle. Fleury is determined to preserve French neutrality...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/217/85

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This record is about the Folio 240: Waldegrave to Newcastle. Fleury is determined to preserve French neutrality... dating from 1738 May 2 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 78/217/85
Date
1738 May 2
Description

Folio 240: Waldegrave to Newcastle. Fleury is determined to preserve French neutrality in the event of a war and declines to guarantee the boundaries of Georgia or to join in the threatening note to Spain, but is unlikely to ally with Spain either; Fleury's suspicion that Britain sought to obstruct acceptance of French mediation between Austria and Turkey.

Date and place: 1738 May 2 Paris.

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