Abstract
For over thirty years after its publication, the Droit des gens had been the work through which it was possible to measure how the meaning of such terms as ‘state,’ ‘constitution,’ ‘nation’ and ‘republic’ changed. During the years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, Vattel’s text was viewed with suspicion and even as a danger. Depending on the situation and the interpretations made of it, it could be used as a ‘revolutionary’ work to emphasise the right of resistance against an oppressor, the role of the nation before the state or within the state, and the role of the small states as a constraint and antidote to the despotism of the great powers and empires.
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