The Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678)

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

David Onnekink

Published:

2016

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK

In this chapter, David Onnekink analyses foreign policy discourses at the start of the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678). Historiography has paid much attention to 1672 as a Year of Disaster, but has implicitly endorsed a realist paradigm of French expansionism and downplayed the relevance of political parties. In this chapter, Onnekink compares three categories of primary sources: political documents, formal published documents and popular publications. He argues that two partisan foreign policy discourses developed. Republicans initially maintained a Peace and Commerce Discourse, but switched to a Two Kings Discourse (emphasizing betrayal by the Kings of France and England). Orangists consistently utilized Universal Monarchy Discourse, that demonized Republicans and saw them and the court of England as agents of France.

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