Need Help --- Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Does anyone have a link of the treaty in its entirety? It would really be awesome for a TL that I hope to launch soon. Thank you. (Aix-la-Chapelle 1748)
English would be preferred, but I can read French (not sure about 18th century French though...)
 
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Was it standard practice back then to refer to monarchs as a "Prince/Princesse" first and then by their official title?

The treaty speaks of "le Sérénissime & Très-Puissant Prince Louis XV, par la grâce de Dieu, Roy très-chrétien de France & de Navarre…" and uses the same type of formulation for the rest.
 
Was it standard practice back then to refer to monarchs as a "Prince/Princesse" first and then by their official title?

The treaty speaks of "le Sérénissime & Très-Puissant Prince Louis XV, par la grâce de Dieu, Roy très-chrétien de France & de Navarre…" and uses the same type of formulation for the rest.

Maybe it's only French treaties that do that? Reading the Treaty of Paris,after the Seven Years' War, it looks like they use the term "Prince" again (the treaty was written in French). In the treaty of Hubertusberg between Prussia and Austria after the Seven Years War, both parties are referred to as "Konig", German for King.
 
Maybe it's only French treaties that do that? Reading the Treaty of Paris,after the Seven Years' War, it looks like they use the term "Prince" again (the treaty was written in French). In the treaty of Hubertusberg between Prussia and Austria after the Seven Years War, both parties are referred to as "Konig", German for King.

Probably started out of tradition from wars with the Princes of the HRE
 
Was it standard practice back then to refer to monarchs as a "Prince/Princesse" first and then by their official title?

The treaty speaks of "le Sérénissime & Très-Puissant Prince Louis XV, par la grâce de Dieu, Roy très-chrétien de France & de Navarre…" and uses the same type of formulation for the rest.

Not sure about this, but I think that "Princes" designated the ruling-class nobles, in the same way "Barons" was (slightly earlier) a generic term for all nobles. So Louis XV has (nature = prince, job = king).

Etymologically it fits: Princes < Lat. Princeps "first".

And it is quite usual, at least in French, in this time period. (For one obvious example, open Rousseau's Contrat Social where the Prince is the ruler).
 
Not sure about this, but I think that "Princes" designated the ruling-class nobles, in the same way "Barons" was (slightly earlier) a generic term for all nobles. So Louis XV has (nature = prince, job = king).

Etymologically it fits: Princes < Lat. Princeps "first".

And it is quite usual, at least in French, in this time period. (For one obvious example, open Rousseau's Contrat Social where the Prince is the ruler).

Yup! It's the same sense that Machiavelli in his work The Prince refers to rulers in general, not just the son of a reigning monach.
 
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