Franclieu to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1816
From Franclieu
Senlis (oise) 6 juin 1816./.
Monsieur Ancien president,
des malheurs ont passé Sur la france. votre Cœur genereux vous y aura fait Compatir. francais, le desir de les prevenir me dicta quelques ecrits.
jai l’honneur de Vous les Soumettre, de Vous en faire hommage.
les principes vrais que jai Voulu Saisir Sont de tous les lieux et les tems.
| Le Cte De Franclieu. |
| ancien Capt de dragons Francais. |
1er Ces feuills plates devaient vous avoir été adressées./.
Editors’ Translation
Senlis (Oise) 6 June 1816./.
Mr. former president,
Misfortunes have befallen France. Your generous heart must have made you sympathetic. As a Frenchman, the desire to prevent them moved me to write a few pieces.
I have the honor to submit them as an homage to you.
The true principles I wanted to grasp belong to all places and times.
| Comte de Franclieu. |
| former captain of the French dragoons. |
1st These humble sheets should have been addressed to you./.
RC (DLC); dateline above postscript; at head of text: “A Monsieur Jefferson Ancien president des Etats unis damerique”; endorsed by TJ as received 19 Sept. 1816 and so recorded in SJL. Translation by Dr. Genevieve Moene. Enclosed in John Graham to TJ, 16 Sept. 1816.
Louis Henri Camille Pasquier, comte de Franclieu (b. 1763), soldier and political writer, was by 1785 a captain of the Bourbon-Dragoons, later the 3d Regiment of Dragoons, and a member of the Order of Malta in 1799. He was active in French politics and wrote several tracts, including Opinion et Project de Loi sur la Liberté de la Presse (Paris, 1817) and Du Principe des Gouvernemens. Des Progrès de l’Espirit Humain (Paris, 1824) (Jean Baptiste de Junquières, Une Famille Senlisienne. Les Junquières [1915], 92; Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, Nobiliaire Universel de France, ou Recueil Général des Généalogies Historiques des Maisons Nobles de ce Royaume [1873–74], 4:93; René Louis de Roussel, Etat Militarie de France pour l’année 1789 [Paris, 1789], 383; Constant Antoine Serrure, Histoire de la Souveraineté de ’S Heerenberg [1859], 2:47; Saint-Allais, L’Ordre de Malte: ses Grands Maitres et ses Chevaliers [1839], 311).
The ecrits here enclosed have not been identified. Franclieu had by this time authored several works, including the pamphlets Réflexions Rapides de L.-H.-C. de Franclieu (Senlis, 1791) and Opinion sur la Charte qui nous est Annoncée (Paris, 1815). TJ had at least one of Franclieu’s publications bound in a volume of “Political, foreign” pamphlets (, 11 [no. 680]).
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