LE DROIT DE LA GUERRE et DE LA PAIX
par HUGUES GROTIUS
2 volumes
Amsterdam; 1724
Size: 8 by 10"
1001 pages plus extensive Table of Contents
Titles in red and black.
Original leather bindings, worn, with some spots to covers of Vol. I, spines repaired
Very good interior condition
Text in French


French translation of Grotius' groundbreaking magnum opus, "De Jure Belli ac Pacis", the founding work of international law.
The profoundly influential masterpiece - written during the Thirty Years' War, in the hope that rational human beings might be able to agree to legal limits on war's destruction
This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government, outside Church or Scripture. Grotius's principle of an immutable law, which God can no more alter than a mathematical axiom, was the first expression of the "droit naturel", the natural law which exercised the great political theorists of the eighteenth century, and is the foundation of modern international law."
This magnum opus of legal philosophy played a tremendous role in French law and politics and in the entire development of international law in general.



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