1Enclosure: Extracts on Relations Between United States and France, 28 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
United States and France
2Draft Consular Convention between France and the United States, [before 24 December 1783] (Franklin Papers)
On August 29, just before the United States and France were to sign their definitive peace treaties with England, Vergennes’
3From John Adams to United States Senate, 11 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States did, on the ninth instant, approve and sign an Act, which originated in this House, intitled “An Act further to suspend the Commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof.”
4Introductory Note: View of the Commercial Regulations of France and Great Britain in Reference to the United States … (Hamilton Papers)
When the Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed between the United States and France in 1778, provision was made for each power to have most-favored-nation privileges,...United States and France the French policy was as favorable to the United States as possible in view of the pressure of commercial interests for a mercantilistic policy. Largely through the efforts of Jefferson, who as...
5Editorial Note: Jefferson, the Aurora, and Delamotte’s Letter from France (Jefferson Papers)
...in addition to Delamotte’s were those written by Charles Louis Clérisseau on 23 May and William Short on 27 Dec. 1797, and neither of those seems to have introduced anything fresh on the subject of relations between the United States and France. They and Delamotte’s of 23 Jan. were the only letters that Jefferson received from France during late March and early April 1798.
6From John Adams to United States Congress, 5 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
Whenever the Channels of Diplomatical communication between the United States and France shall be opened, I shall demand satisfaction for the insult and reparation for the injury.
7From John Adams to United States Senate, 25 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
To be Envoys Extraordinary—and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the French Republick with full Powers to discuss and settle, by a Treaty all Controversies between the United States and France.
8Remarks on the Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation lately made between the United States and Great Britain, [9–11 … (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 19 (originally 21) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of February 6, 1778, between the United States and France (
9Cabinet 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
10Enclosure: France and America, [2 October 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
...clearly shewn by Mr. Jefforson, in his correspondence on the subject, and has been otherwise amply demonstrated, that this treaty did nothing more than adopt the principle as a rule to be observed, between the United States and France, with regard to each other when one was at peace, the other at war—that it did not bind either party to enforce or insist upon the rule as against other...
11From John Adams to United States Congress, 8 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
The course of the transactions in relation to the United States and France which have come to my knowledge during your recess will be made the subject of a future communication. That communication will confirm the ultimate failure of the measures, which have been taken by the government of the United States...
12Enclosure: Questions on Neutrality and the Alliance with France, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
What is the effect of a Guarantee such as that to be found in the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France?
13Relations with France, [1795–1796] (Hamilton Papers)
There are circumstances, which render it too probable that a very delicate state of things is approaching between the United States and France. When threatened with foreign danger, from whatever quarter, it is highly necessary that we should be united at home; and considering our partiality hitherto for France, it is necessary towards this Union, that we should understand what...
14Editorial Note: Representation by France against the Tonnage Acts (Jefferson Papers)
He had suspected during the first session that some of his colleagues had hoped to destroy the confidence between the United States and France and now he was certain of it. Morris pleaded with him to join in the effort to postpone the discussion and Jefferson called on him in person. But the extent of Maclay’s embittered isolation from his colleagues and...
15Instructions Respecting a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the Netherlands, 29 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
between these United States and France, and being particularly attentive to the ninth, tenth and seventeenth articles of our treaty of Amity and Commerce with France numbered as they were finally ratified.
16Editorial Note: The Debt to France: The Proposals of Schweitzer, Jeanneret & Cie. (Jefferson Papers)
...bankers had taken this precipitate step “to prevent his completing the negotiation … begun for the transfer of the American debt in a manner which would have been honorable and advantageous” for the United States and France as well as for the promoters. He thought the American government could not refuse to discharge a part of its debt now that it was in possession of 3 million livres and he...
17Enclosure: Answer to Questions Proposed by the President of the U States, [29 April 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to the mutual guarantees in Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance concluded in 1778 between the United States and France. The United States guaranteed the present and future “Possessions of the Crown of france in America,” and France guaranteed the “liberty, Sovereignty, and Independence” of the United States (
18To James Madison from Philip Nicklin and Robert Eaglesfield Griffith, 25 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
That matters remained in this situation until the convention and Treaty were successively made between the United States and France, in the Years ,Left blank in Tr. The writers referred to article 4 of the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, and to the Louisiana Purchase Claims Convention of 1803 (see
19To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
...relations between it and the United States, enclosing their correspondence with Cevallos, and suggesting that if the French still refused to change their position he should have Purviance or Erving notify the British of the differences emerging between the United States and France. The other enclosures are copies of Cevallos to Monroe and Pinckney, 24 Feb. 1805 (16 pp.; cover marked “
20From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 2 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
...it is evident, will be, or can be admitted to be produced in that Treaty or in the arrangements carried into effect under it, further than it may be superceded by stipulations between the United States and France, who will stand in the place of Spain. It will not be amiss to insist on an express recognition of this by France as an effectual bar against pretexts of any sort not compatible...
21Memorandum from Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 8 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
See the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (
...would offer nothing more, Jay sent off yet another appeal on 21 November. “Thirty thousand pounds Stirling” ($133,200), he said, would end this “unhappy Business.” The “Evils” the United States and France would experience if the bills were protested, he argued, would cost France a “vast Deal more.” Franklin applied to Vergennes for a million livres tournois ($185,200) beyond what he had...
23To Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress: Instructions, Plan of an Attack upon Quebec and Observations on the … (Franklin Papers)
6thly. That it will secure the Fisheries to the United States and France their Ally to the total exclusion Of Great britain.
24To James Madison from Thomas Corbett and Others, 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
...said the French commissary at Charleston had informed him of the incident, and that he had already taken steps to obtain satisfaction for the violation of the convention between the United States and France. JM added that the president had weighed the memorialists’ observations about the protection necessary for the port and would “promote such measures as the nature of his functions,...
25From James Madison to James Monroe, 5 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
This article is taken from the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, who appears to have borrowed it from corresponding stipulations in the Convention between the United States and France in the year
26“Mr. Hamilton’s Letter”, 1800 (Adams Papers)
William Vans Murray Esqr, our Minister Resident at the Hague, to be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the French Republic, with full Powers to discuss and settle, but a Treaty, all Controversies between the United States and France.
27Editorial Note: Death of Franklin (Jefferson Papers)
...Assembly. The characteristically bold expedient was dangerous not so much because it broke with diplomatic tradition or constituted an ill-conceived precedent, but because it involved the risk of injuring the friendly relations existing between the United States and France. Since the destruction of the alliance was a cardinal point in Hamilton’s policy, the bold allusions must have...
28To James Madison from James Monroe, 12 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
...in that special case, but in that only. The war with England was declared, without any concert or communication with the French Government; it has produced no connection between the United States and France, or any understanding as to its prosecution, continuance, or termination. The ostensible relation between the two countries, is the true and only one. The United States have just...
29The Defence No. XXXVIII, [9 January 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed at Paris on February 6, 1778. Articles 1 and 7 of this treaty read: “Art. 1. If War should break out betwan france and Great Britain, during the continuence of the present War betwan the......18) and Article 21 (originally 23) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France,...
30Editorial Note: The Consular Convention of 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...consuls, had been suffering loss and indignities at the hands of state authority. But before these sufferings Jay stood unmoved, voicing no such concern for the threat to relations between the United States and France as Madison and others had expressed. The national faith and honor were pledged to Great Britain by treaty, and Jay argued eloquently that the states should be called upon to...