1Abigail 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
2John 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...
3John 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
4John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
...this part is almost a repetition of a speech made last Winter by a member of the house of representatives upon the foreign intercourse bill; which speech was the only one upon that occasion that has appeared translated in the Paris Newspapers.
5To 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.
6To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 13 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
...“The news brought by the liberty has made no great sensation.” The inclosed copy of a letter dated at Bordeaux Augt. 27 from Mr. Hory gives the information concerning General Pinckney’s departure. A Paris newspaper of the 24th of August, sent by Mr. Hory for Genl. Pinckney, contains Philadelphia news of the 24th of July. An extract of those articles is inclosed; to which is added (from the...
7From John Adams to Richard Rush, 11 August 1813 (Adams Papers)
...extreamly cautious of publishing any Thing from his Letters. I enjoined it upon him to write nothing to me, that he was not willing Should be printed at the Same time in the London and Paris Newspapers. Our Letters have allmost all been opened and read in French or English Courts, and afterwards Sent to Us. You may conclude there has been no Secrets or Treason in them. I have been...
8To 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...
9To 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
10To 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...