Let's imagine Louis XIV and Mazarin meeting in October 1648, when Europe awoke from a thirty-year nightmare.In Münster and Osnabrück, pens finally replaced cannons: the Peace of Westphalia was born.Signature of the Peace of Westphalia - Münster, 24 October 1648 While the diplomats wiped the sweat from their brows, in Paris, a ten-year-old boy listened […] The post Louis XIV and Mazarin: How France Quietly Gained Alsace appeared first on French Moments.| French Moments
This research on the Peace of Westphalia and Alsace tells how a peace treaty signed in 1648 not only ended the Thirty Years’ War, but also changed the fate of a region caught between empires.Signed in October 1648, the Treaties of Westphalia brought an end to one of the most devastating wars Europe had ever known — the Thirty […] The post The Peace of Westphalia and Alsace : from Habsburg to France appeared first on French Moments.| French Moments
The Peace of Westphalia: The End of an Endless WarBy the mid-seventeenth century, Europe was exhausted.For thirty years, the continent had been ravaged by a conflict of unprecedented scale — the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648).What had begun as a religious quarrel between Catholic and Protestant princes of the Holy Roman Empire had quickly turned into a political war, pitting the […] The post The Peace of Westphalia: The 1648 Treaties That Redrew Europe appeared first on French Mom...| French Moments
By FRANK BAJAK| FRANK BAJAK
Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Ludolf Pelizaeus (Univ. Amiens), Prof. Dr. Arno Strohmeyer (Univ. Salzburg), Dr. Eva Seemann (DHIP), Dr. Niels F. May (DHIP) Wo: DHIP Wann: 26.–28. März 2025 Bewerbungsfrist:...| Dialog und Austausch
