1. Guizot's Absence of a Plan for Jerusalem.
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Caquet, P.E.
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GREAT powers (International relations) , *JERUSALEM in Christianity , *CHURCH & international relations , *NINETEENTH century , *HISTORY , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,HISTORY of Jerusalem ,FRENCH foreign relations - Abstract
Historians have speculated over the existence of an 1841 plan by the French foreign minister François Guizot to internationalize Jerusalem as a Christian city, a plan holding major implications for the eventual emergence of a Jewish state and for European–Ottoman relations. This article aims, based on fresh archival and other sources, to provide a definitive evaluation of Guizot's plan, its scope, and its motivations. It broadens the field to encompass other great power plans mooted in 1841, including plans of a Protestant yet Zionist flavour, and it reassesses the political weight of early nineteenth-century European religious impulses with regard to Palestine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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