Responsse a l'Apologie de monsieur de Souza Coutinho ou à la pretendüe verification du contenu en sa lettre au sieur de la Chapelle, datée à Paris du 4. mars 1651
Publisher: Chez Iaques Zegers, avec permission
Published: 1651
Place of publication: Imprimé a Louvain
Language: fre
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Louvain; Apologie, pour monsieur de Souza Coutinho, ambassadeur de Portugal en France, ou Verification du contenu en la lettre qu'il a écrit de Paris au sieur de la Chapelle, en date du 4. mars 1651. contre les calomnies d'Antoine Brun; History
Other titles: Response a l'Apologie de monsieur de Souza Coutinho ou à la pretendüe verification du contenu en sa lettre au sieur de la Chapelle, datée à Paris du 4. mars 1651.; Reponse a l'Apologie de monsieur de Souza Coutinho ou à la pretendüe verification du contenu en sa lettre au sieur de la Chapelle, datée à Paris du 4. mars 1651.
Notes: The Bibliothèque nationale de France online catalogue lists an edition printed by G. du Prée in Ruremonde in the same year.

The "Apologie" referred to in the title was printed in Paris [i.e. the Hague?] in 1651.

The dedication to Antoine Brun, p. [3-6], 2nd count, is signed and dated: I. C. D. T. Culemburg ce 12. mai 1651.

The letter by Francisco de Souza Coutinho, which is deconstructed and refuted here, claims that the Spanish ambassador in the Hague, Antoine Brun, had approached Sousa Countinho with the proposal of a quadruple alliance between Spain, France, Portugal and Sweden against the Dutch Republic. Spain would quickly end its wars with Portugal and France, with the latter gaining the Franche-Comte, and the countries would divide the Dutch trade. Sweden would take over their Baltic trade, France their wine trade, Portugal their salt trade, and Spain their trade in the East and West Indies. The letter was claimed to have been a fake.

Signatures: A-F⁴ (A4 missigned A2) (A1 verso blank)

Woodcut coat of arms on title page; initial.

Rodrigues, J.H. Historiografia e bibliografia do domínio holandês no Brasil, 657.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands). Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke bibliotheek, 6996.

Purchase; 2016; 17-207b.

Text primarily in Latin with some passages in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy has "4" written in ms. hand at head of title page.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 2nd item of 2 with: Apologie, pour monsieur de Souza Coutinho, ambassadeur de Portugal en France ou Verification du contenu en la lettre qu'il a écrit de Paris au sieur de la Chapelle, en date du 4. mars 1651. contre les calomnies d'Antoine Brun, Paris [i.e. the Hague?], 1651.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern full brown morocco with gold tooling.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Maryann Lippitt Fund.