Edition of the French Correspondence of the Peace Congress of Westphalia (May to October 1648)

这个项目的目的是为1648年5月21日至10月25日期间<s:1>内斯特和奥斯纳布尔<e:1>克和平大会的法国信件制作一个历史批判版。在威斯特伐利亚和约谈判的最后阶段，所有参与者必须决定在多年战争之后是否最终有可能实现全面和平。从法国人的角度来看，这一时期必须确定他们自己的政治利益和目标是否可以在和平条约中得到保障或实现，同时也要考虑到法国对皇帝和西班牙的战争如何结束。计划出版的版本填补了迄今仍存在的可用资料的重大空白，因为帝国和瑞典关于威斯特伐利亚和约的历史批判出版物已经完成，但法国会议通信的最后一卷还没有完成。对于这个版本，广泛的初步工作已经可以访问。它不仅将为研究《威斯特伐利亚和约》提供一个新的重要基石，而且这些文件（其中许多将首次出版）也将使有关现代外交关系史的国际和跨学科研究能够更广泛地获得宝贵的原始材料。

This project aims to produce a historical-critical edition of the French correspondence of the Peace Congress of Münster and Osnabrück for the period from 21 May to 25 October 1648. In this final phase of the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia, all participants had to decide whether it would finally be possible to achieve overall peace after many years of war. From the French perspective, this period had to determine whether their own political interests and goals could be safeguarded or implemented in a peace treaty whilst also taking into account how France’s wars against the Emperor and Spain could be concluded. The planned edition closes a significant gap in available sources that still exists to this day, due to the fact that the historical-critical publication of imperial and Swedish correspondence on the Peace of Westphalia is complete, but the last volume of the French congress correspondence is not. For this edition, extensive preliminary work is already accessible. It will not only provide a new and important cornerstone for the study of the Peace of Westphalia, but the documents, many of which will be published for the first time, will also allow valuable source material to be more widely available for international and interdisciplinary research on the history of modern foreign relations.