... France and the Netherlands in 1672 resulted from the irritation of the French King, Louis XIV, over the issuing of certain medals and the spreading of offensive jokes.15 He alsopointed out ... French-supportedgovernment (as in the Netherlands, Naples, the Rhineland and Spain) orimposing large financial payments to France (as in the case of Austria). In addition, this period witnessed the world’s first ... amongstinternational lawyers in the succeeding generations. Bynkershoek, forexample, writing in 1737, held war to be ‘[not] merely the act of fighting,but also the state of things obtaining during...