1Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creek Indians, 31 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
, 26:68–71). For the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, see
2Memorial from George Hammond, with Jefferson’s Notes, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
by the stipulations of any existing treaties between the United States and France, and may lead to the most dangerous consequences. The undersigned therefore presumes to hope that, if his opinion should be so fortunate as to receive the sanction of the executive government of the United States, the latter will...
3Enclosure: Extracts on Relations Between United States and France, 28 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
United States and France
4Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 7 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...was to forestall the arming of American privateers, and TJ joined the other members of Washington’s cabinet in support of the declaration of neutrality although there was a division of opinion over the status of the relationship between the United States and France (
5To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
...be subjected to all the duties which are there laid on the mass of foreign Vessels. . . . And consequently our own Vessels in the carrying Trade between the United States and France would be in a worse situation than French Vessels. . . . And if the principle of the Regulation cannot be deemed safe in a permanent view, it ought not to be admitted temporarily; for inconvenient precedents...
6IV. Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 16 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...the jurisdiction which may be rightfully exercised in the territory it occupies. If it cedes any portion of that jurisdiction to Judges appointed by another Nation, the limits of their power must depend on the instrument of cession. The United States and France, have, by their Consular Convention, given mutually to their Consuls jurisdiction in certain cases specially enumerated. But that...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 15 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...at Charleston, has condemned, as legal prize, a British vessel captured by a French frigate, observing that this judicial act is not warranted by the usage of nations nor by the stipulations existing between the United States and France. It is true, that it is not so warranted, nor yet by any law of the Land: that, therefore, it is a mere nullity, can be respected in no Court, make no part...
8Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 12 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
9From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 15 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...to New York. (13) Louis André Pichon to secretary of state, 28 Ventose Year 9 (19 Mch. 1801), informing him that the first consul of France has issued orders for implementation of the convention between the United States and France even though the pact has not yet received final ratification; Pichon wishes to know the intentions of the United States regarding execution of the convention; see
10Thomas Jefferson to James Le Ray de Chaumont, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
divided his time thereafter between the United States and France, with his longest stay at his