71VI. Jefferson to Montmorin, 8 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a copy of my letter to Monsieur de la Fayette correcting the error into which the States general had been led by Monsieur de Mirabeau. Monsieur de la Fayette had spoke to him yesterday morning, and he acknowleged that he had been mistaken in the fact he had asserted, and promised that he would set it to rights in the assembly when the subject should be brought...
72VII. Jefferson to Necker, 8 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a copy of my letter to Monsieur de la Fayette. When I called on him yesterday he had already spoken to Monsieur de Mirabeau, who acknoleged he had been in an error in what he had advanced in the assembly of the nation as to the proposition supposed to have been made by me to your excellency, and undertook to declare his error when the subject should be resumed...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Montmorin, 8 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My hotel having been lately robbed, for the third time, I take the liberty of uniting my wish with that of the inhabitants of this quarter, that it might coincide with the arrangements of the Police to extend to us the protection of a guard. While the Douane remained here, no accident of that kind happened, but since their removal, other houses in the neighborhood have been robbed as well as...
74XI. Jefferson to Lafayette, 9 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been curious to form some estimate of the quantity of corn and flour which have been supplied to France this year, I applied to a person in the farms, to know upon what quantities the premium had been paid. He could not give me information but as to the Atlantic ports into which there has been imported from the united states from March to May inclusive 44,116 quintals of corn 12,221...
75XII. Jefferson to Lafayette, 10 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The acknowledgement by Monsieur de Mirabeau to the national assembly that he had been in an error as to the offer he supposed me to have made, and the reading to them my letter, seems to be all that was requisite for any just purpose. As I was unwilling my name should be used to injure the minister, I am also unwilling it should be used to injure Monsieur de Mirabeau. I learn that his enemies...
76From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 11 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last, which was of May 19. I have received yours of June 17. and 18. I am struck with the idea of the geometrical wheelbarrow, and will beg of you a further account if it can be obtained. I have no news yet of my Congé. Tho you have doubtless heard most of the proceedings of the States general since my last, I will take up the narration where that left it, that you may be able to...
77From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 12 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise will be arrived in London before this reaches you. He could not determine to await the deed any longer. But he proposed to and at your house in order to know in the first moment whether it was signed. He left in my hands a bill on you for £176. sterling which I have advanced for him and Mrs. Paradise at different times. It was part of a sum of money which I was to have paid in...
78From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 12 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The delay of my Congé permits me still the pleasure of continuing to communicate the principal things which pass here. I have already informed you that the proceedings of the states general were tied up by the difficulty which arose as to the manner of voting, whether it should be by persons or orders. The Tiers at length gave an ultimate invitation to the other two orders to come and join...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Madame Denise Broutin, 13 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Madame Broutin s’occupant d’un jardin Anglois, Monsieur Jefferson a pensé qu’elle pourroit avoir plaisir à voir un livre traduit de l’Anglois où ce sujet est superieurement traité. A des principes très fondés, l’Auteur (M. Whateley) ajoute des descriptions exactes et pittoresques des jardins les plus celebres de l’Angleterre.—Monsieur Jefferson prie donc Madame Broutin de lui accorder la grace...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 13 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you the day before yesterday by Mr. Paradise. I write now by post . The case described in that letter page 3. line 4. to 11. has happened. Mr. Necker was dismissed from office the evening of the 11th. and set out for Geneva. This was not generally known in Paris till yesterday afternoon. The mobs immediately shut up all the playhouses. The foreign troops were advanced into the city....