François-Paul de Lisola
French diplomat and pamphleteer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baron François-Paul de Lisola (Franz Paul Freiherr von Lisola) (22 August 1613 - 19 December 1674) was an seventeenth-century diplomat and pamphleteer from Salins, France-Comté. In older English literature, his name is sometimes given as d’Isola.[1]
Bitterly anti-French, he served the Austrian Habsburgs and has been credited by modern historians with helping establish France as England's primary opponent in the so-called Second Hundred Years' War.[2] In the nineteenth-century, following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, German historians became greatly interested in him and credited him as the creator of the Grand Alliance or League of Augsburg.[3][4][5]