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Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. to Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert giving a detailed description of what the United States owes France, 22 November 1790
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Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. to Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert giving a detailed description of what the United States owes France, 22 November 1790.
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[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1790]
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Collection: The Henry Knox Papers.
Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. was a bank in Paris. Lambert was the Controller General of Finances in France during the Reign of Terror under Robespierre.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Detailed description of what the United States owes France, which amounts to about 40 million livres. Discusses the political situation in the United States regarding this debt, the actions of Congress regarding the debt, and dealings with US agents on paying the debt to France. States that [w]e are informed that the agent of the United States ... has not been able to promise the payment of more than three millions on account of that part of the Debt to France which is now due. We apprehend that it would be an act of great Service to both the United States and to France, to procure the the ... full payment of the french debt. Noted as a copy in the header. Date of copy unknown. Sewn binding. Watermarked with a hunting horn.
Variant and related titles
American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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March 18, 2024
Series
American history module 1
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Correspondence
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AM (Publisher), digitiser.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.
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