1To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
alliance between the United States and France was insincere and transitory
2To Thomas Jefferson from Vernes, 30 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
may have been an early draft of Bérard’s Observations on the tobacco trade between the United States and France, printed under 3 Sep. 1787, q.v. for a note on Bérard’s letter to the farmers-general of 14 July 1787 and other documents involved in the efforts being made by TJ, Lafayette, Bérard, and...
3From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1784 (Madison Papers)
alliance between the United States and France
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, with Enclosure, 27 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress being desirous that the Commerce between the United States and France may be promoted by every reciprocal Regulation conducive to that End, wish that no Time may be lost in ascertaining the Privileges, Powers and Duties of their respective Consuls, Vice Consuls and commercial Agents and Commissaries.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Thomson, 18 June 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...the episode and, upon Marbois’ declining Boinod & Gaillard’s offer to print his version, dealt so harshly with him that he complained to Vergennes, charging that the aim of the publishers was to sow discord between the United States and France. On this affair, see
6To Thomas Jefferson from Calonne, 22 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
For a brief account of the immediate background of this general code of regulations affecting trade between the United States and France, see