Treaty of Alliance between France and Denmark
publication and notice of the aforesaid peace of the year 1653/4,
or other actions of such a nature as may not be thought fit to be
referred unto such arbitration, they shall be expunged out of
the catalogues ;
Accordingly after each side has agreed upon these catalogues,
a whole year shall be appointed wherein all cases contained in
those catalogues may be accommodated and composed by
friendly conferences between his Majesty’s minister and the
commissioners of the States General at the Hague ; and the
claimants or their deputies thereunto appointed by special let-
ters of attorney, shall be bound to make their appearance at the
Hague before the end of the sixth month in the aforesaid year ;
But that year having expired, all those cases about which the
claimants or their deputies were at the Hague with an aim or
purpose to have them brought unto a friendly issue (which they
shall be bound to prove by lawful testimony of the envoy of the
King of Great Britain, and of the commissioners of the States
General, or either of them) and which nevertheless have not
been by that time brought to such an issue, shall be referred to
the said commissioners, that they may be at last composed or
decided by them. These commissioners, moreover, after the said
year has expired, if there remain any cases not composed in
such friendly manner at that time, shall meet for that purpose at
London, and there shall be four on either side, instructed and
provided with authority, and thenceforward this submission
and progress in and through all matters shall be carried on in
the same manner as it was in the year 1654, but so as the arbi-
tration upon these matters be not referred to the Protestant
cantons of Switzerland.
- Also, that the subjects of the said lord king and those who
are under his jurisdiction may freely, safely, and securely travel
in the provinces of the United Netherlands and all their domin-
ions in Europe, and pass through them by sea or land to any or
other places in or beyond them, and through any of their cities,
forts, or garrisons whatsoever, which are or shall be in any parts
of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, or elsewhere in
their dominions, they themselves carrying on trade in all those
places, and also their agents, factors, and servants, armed or
unarmed (but if armed, not above forty in company), either
without their goods and merchandise or with them, whereso-
ever they please. The people also and the inhabitants of the
United Provinces of the Netherlands shall enjoy the same lib-
erty in all the dominions of the said lord king in Europe ; pro-
vided that they and every of them do in their trade and mer-
chandising yield obedience to the laws and statutes of either
nation respectively....
[28.] Also, it is agreed, concluded, and accorded that the
present treaty, and all and singular therein contained and con-
cluded, shall be confirmed and ratified by the said lord King of
Great Britain, and the said lords the States General of the
United Provinces, by letters patent on both sides, sealed with
the great seal in due and authentic form, within three months
next ensuing (or sooner if it can be done), and that within the
said time the instruments on both sides shall be exchanged ;
and that immediately after the delivery and exchange, this
treaty and alliance shall be published in such places and man-
ner as is usual.
In witness and confirmation of all these, we the said ambas-
sadors extraordinary of the said lords the States General have
signed the present treaty and thereto affixed our seal. Done at
Whitehall on the 4/14 day of September, 1662.V. HOORN.
M. VAN GOGH.We, therefore, Charles, by the grace of God king of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., have
commended, approved, and ratified in all their clauses the
treaty exhibited above, and its separate articles, and the separate
article annexed thereto, as drawn in conformity with our com-
mands, as by virtue of these presents we do commend, approve,
and in every good manner ratify them, promising in our own
name and in that of our successors and on our royal word that
we will keep and fulfill them inviolably and in good faith and
will not allow them to be violated in any way by our people or
by any others whatsoever. In pledge of which we have ordered
the present letters, subscribed with our hand, to be secured with
the greater seal of England. Done at Westminster, on the
twenty-fourth day of December, in the year 1662, and of our
reign the fourteenth.CHARLES, King.1.1009 Treaty of Alliance between France and
Denmark
Alliance Members:France and Denmark
Signed On:July 24, 1663, in the city of Paris
Alliance Type:Non-Aggression Pact (Type II)
Source:Laursen,vol. 5, p. 513.
Additional Citations:Consolidated Treaty Series,vol. 7, p. 473;
Dumont,vol. 4 (part 2), p. 470.SUMMARY
This alliance follows a commerce treaty that was signed in 1662.
Under the commerce treaty, France was permitted duty-free passage
through the Baltic and at the mouth of the Elbe River; small duties
were due on returns through the Danish territories. In return, France
decreased its duties on the Danes for making passage through French
waters equivalent to transit through Dutch holdings. The treaty was
advantageous for the French and greatly decreased France’s use of
Norwegian materials in building warships.
Louis XIV’s decision to offer an alliance the next year was part of a
concerted effort to influence the German princes against the Haps-
burgs. The Danes were offered guarantees against the possibility of
renewed hostilities with Sweden, and this eventually allowed Denmark
to enter the Second Anglo-Dutch War against England.