[novella] Envoy Extraordinary is a 1956 novella by William Golding, published along with Clonk Clonk and The Scorpion God in the collection The Scorpion God. Envoy Extraordinary is set in Ancient Rome, in and around the Emperor`s court. The aged Emperor lives with his favourite grandson, the seventeen-year-old Mamillius. The true heir, Post...
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(from the article `diplomacy`) ...chancellor, had created an English diplomatic service. Under Francis I, France adopted the Italian system in the 1520s and had a corps of resident ...
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plenipotentiary. ...
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