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The present state of the court of France and city of Paris : in a letter from Monsieur M*** to the Honourable Matthew Prior, Esq., one of the commissioners of Her Majesty's customs
M, Monsieur (fl.1712); Mesnager, Nicolas (1658-1714); Prior, Matthew (1664-1721); Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)
1712
Attributed doubtfully to Nicolas Mesnager by Morgan, who adds "possibly by Defoe." "Some further remarks upon the French, their authors, preachers, &c., by a French gentleman": p. 59-80. Page 1 is...
Minutes of the negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager at the court of England, towards the close of the last reign : wherein some of the most secret transactions of that time, relating to the interest of the Pretender, and a clandestine separate peace, are detected and laid open
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731); Mesnager, Nicolas (1658-1714)
1717
First ed. Cf. Moore, 377. A forgery ascribed to Defoe, intended to influence the trial of his patron, Lord Oxford. Authorship apparently denied by Defoe. cf. Wm. Lee in Notes and queries, ser. 4, v....