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Hotman, Jean (1552-1636) |
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A French diplomat and devout Calvinist, Jean was the eldest son of the famous Huguenot revolutionary and scholar, François Hotman. An anglophile, his father sent him to study law at Oxford. This led directly to a distinguished five-year career as secretary to the Earl of Leicester in the first half of the 1580s. Learned and influential, and with a familiarity with embassy life acquired a few years earlier when he was a tutor in the household of the English ambassador in Paris, Hotman (like Gentili) had been consulted in the Mendoza case in 1584. By students of diplomacy he is now remembered chiefly as the author of L\'Ambassadeur, published in 1603 and expanded and corrected in the following year under the title De la charge et dignité de l\'ambassadeur. This work was important for being the first to argue that the inviolability of diplomatic premises, as opposed to the person of the envoy, was a central component of diplomatic law. Though other jurists were soon to accept this view, it was still unacknowledged by Grotius two decades later. |
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