1Memorandum Books, 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
. This daily Paris newspaper printed advertisements of property for sale or rent, notices of commercial novelties and cultural events, and announcements of new books.
2To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 23 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
..., dated 25 July 1792 and issued under Brunswick’s signature, which threatened “total destruction” to anyone who opposed their efforts to restore the authority of Louis XVI. Its publication in the Paris newspapers led to violent protests in the streets of Paris. On 10 Aug. a mob stormed the Tuileries, where Louis XVI and his family were living, and massacred the Swiss Guard which...
3Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 June 1795 (Adams Papers)
...or profession, any society, assembly or mob, are not the French people.” The report further proclaimed the right of the government to forcibly suppress such assemblies and prosecute the organizers. Translations of Merlin’s declaration, reprinted from Paris newspapers, appeared in the New York press from 19 June (New York
4To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 11–12 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
...we have this evening, in Brown’s paper, an extract of a letter from Paris, dated August 2d (Dr E. was there till the 7th) in which the note to Barthelemy is mentioned as printed in a Paris Newspaper: but it recites
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 22 January 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
and was soon to depart. The rumor spread to France where a Paris newspaper reported that Madison had arrived in the city on 2 Apr. 1797 (
6To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 3 February 1797 (Adams Papers)
I shall for the future send you constantly a Paris newspaper of considerable reputation, as well as the Leyden Gazette. I hope they may sometimes give you valuable information.
7To George Washington from John Marshall, 15 September 1797 (Washington Papers)
The Paris newspapers with reports of the coup d’état of 18 Fructidor and its aftermath that Marshall sent to GW have not been identified, but see note 8, ibid., 142. At the time of the coup d’état, Jean...
8John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
The new french Director is Treilhard, and a Paris newspaper, published by Poultier, hitherto a member of the Legislature, says that he will prevail upon his colleagues to reform, that monstrous corruption and venality, which prevail in every department of the administration, which is of public notoriety...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 9 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
of 5 June, which cited a Paris newspaper, that a French expedition “at once of a military and scientific nature,” with scholars to accompany an army of 20,000, was in preparation for
10John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
...the diplomatic skill of France, and the french party in America, to throw the blame of the rupture upon the American Government, and they are apparently now preparing to carry this threat into execution.— The Moniteur, a Paris newspaper under the influence and controul of the Government, in a pretended article from New-York dated 12. April, says, that the