1To George Washington from La Luzerne, 15 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
Although for a long time I have not had the honor to recall me to Your Excellency’s goodness, I pray you to be well persuaded that I have not been the less occupied in your glory and successes—and that it is with great pleasure I see the confidence in, and the consideration of, the United States daily rising in every country of Europe. Those Persons who, like me, have had the happiness to know...
2To George Washington from La Luzerne, 15 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Quoi que depuis longtemps je n’aye pas eu l’honneur de me rapeller aux bontés de votre excellence, je le prie detre bien persuadée que je n’ai pas eté moins occupée de sa gloire et de ses succés et que c’est avec un grand plaisir que je vois la confiance et la consideration des etats unis, selever tous les jours d’avantage dans tous les pays de leurope, les gens qui comme moi ont eu le bonheur...
3To George Washington from La Luzerne, 14 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
M. Dowdall qui remettra cette Lettre à vôtre Excellence est un Gentilhomme anglois qui m’est Recommandé par plusieurs personnes de ce pays cy pour lesquelles j’ai une grande Considération. Sa famille lui laisse des Droits à réclamer sur des possessions très Considérables dans les Etats unis qui le déterminent à y passer. Si ces Droits sont fondés, je supplie vôtre Excellence de l’honnorer de...
4To George Washington from La Luzerne, 17 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
I dare to flatter myself that your Excellency does justice to the very tender and respectful attachment which I have long entertained towards you—and that you will be persuaded of the great pleasure with which I have learned the success that has followed the first movements of your administration. After having given freedom to your country it was worthy of the virtues and great character of...
5To George Washington from La Luzerne, 1788 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to recommend to you Monsr Lattin, an Irish Gentleman in the French service, he intends visiting the United States, & particularly Your Excellency, he cannot return until he has rendered homage to your talents & virtue; I dare promise myself that your friendship for me will lead you to pay attention to Monsr Lattin. I wish you to be persuaded of the sentiments of Attachment & respect...
6To George Washington from La Luzerne, September 1787 (Washington Papers)
Monsieur le Cte du Moutier will have the honor to transmit this to your Excellency; he is desireous (as every good Frenchman is) to be acquainted with a man whose virtue & great talents have secured the independence of his Country, & established the happiness of a great part of the Universe. He is destined to fill my place as minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty to the United States; he...
7To George Washington from La Luzerne, April 1787 (Washington Papers)
The hopes which I have entertained for this year past of revisiting America has prevented me from writing to your Excellency of late. An ill state of health obliged me to postpone my return to America which was to have been in the spring of 1786. The Physicians advised me to take the Spa waters for the reestablishment of my health, & I find it has benefitted me. I flatter myself I shall be...
8To George Washington from La Luzerne, 3 February 1786 (Washington Papers)
Mr Houdon Delivered me the Letter, That Your Excy Honoured me with of the 5th Novr And I have learnd with very great Satisfaction, that you have Enjoyed very good Health, & that you Promise to your Aquaintances a long Life, that has been Glorious, & Usefull to Your Country. I return Your Excy my Most Sincere thanks for the Accurate Account, you have given me of the Affairs of the United...
9To George Washington from La Luzerne, 25 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have received by the Marquis de la Lafayette, on his arrival in France, the letters your Excellency has honoured me with. I can not express how much I am sensible of these marks of your Kindness and Friendship; I am likewise extreemely flattered by the interest you take in my future employments. Permit me to assure you that wherever the King may send me, he can not entrust me a commission as...
10To George Washington from La Luzerne, 15 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Marquis de la Fayette has delivered to me the letters of your Excellency and I am extreemely flattered by this mark of your attention and of your remembrance. I have executed your commissions near his Majesty and the Royal family, and the King is concerned that your domestic affairs deprive him of the satisfaction to see a man, whose talents and virtues have procured the hapiness of his...
11To George Washington from La Luzerne, 20 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
Mr de Chateaufort, Consul of France for the State of So. Carolina, intends, on his Journey from Newyorck to Charlestown, to wait upon Your Excellency and to present You this letter. Permit me to recommend him to your attention. He is quite a stranger in America, but he belongs to a nation for whom You have always shewn the greatest partiality, and his personal merit will, I doubt not, render...
12To George Washington from La Luzerne, 12 September 1784 (Washington Papers)
I flatter myself that the distance in which I live now from you has not lessened the esteem and Confidence with which you have been constantly pleased to honor me. I should think myself very fortunate if the future incidents of my Life could afford me an opportunity to receive new proofs of your Kindness and of your Friendship. The first moments I passed with my Countrymen were employed in...
13To George Washington from La Luzerne, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
I cannot quit the Continent, without renewing my assurances of the esteem towards you, with wc. I am inspired—From the five years residence I have made in America, and the share I have had in business; I have had a better opportunity than most, of admiring your Military talents, and those great qualities wc. have secured for ever, the Independance, and liberty of your Country—I share in...
14To George Washington from La Luzerne, 18 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
I had flattered myself that my Stay in Annapolis would procure me an opportunity of waiting upon Your Excellency, but the roads are so bad and the Snow so deep that I am obliged to renounce to this happiness untill my return to this place, which, I hope, will be towards the middle of next month. I hope then to take hold of the favorable moment, which I have lost in this Season, and to enjoy...
15To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 21 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que Votre Excellence m’a fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 6. de ce mois au sujet de Mr de Villefranche et de Rochefontaine. Le témoignage que vous voulés bien rendre à ces deux officiers servrit du plus grand poids dans l’esprit de personnes qui peuvent contribuer à leur avancement et c’est avec bien de plaisir, Monsieur, que je recois en mon particulier les differentes...
16To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 7 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
Je prends la liberté de vous demander vos bontés pour Le Cte Wengiersky, Gentilhomme Polonois, qui voyage uniquement pour son instruction. Le respect universel de ses Concitoyens pour votre Excellence et plus encore le desir de connoitre l’homme qui a réuni par ses grandes qualités le suffrage de tous les Pays et de toutes les Nations, l’engageront à rester quelques jours à Princeton. j’ose...
17To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 4 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
Votre Excellence me permettrait-elle de lui presenter M. Gardner, Procureur Général de l’Isle de S. Christophe. M. le Marquis de Bouillé qui a conquis cette Isle m’en parle comme d’un homme infiniment attaché à Votre cause et qui lui a rendu personellement les plus grands services. Les Officiers Généraux qui ont commandé depuis cette epoque en font aussi les plus grands eloges; il est né dans...
18To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 25 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que Votre Excellence m’a fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 13 de ce mois. Je suis bien sensible à l’invitation que Vous avés bien voulu me faire d’assister aux fêtes que Vous preparés à l’occasion de la paix. Je me feliciterai de pouvoir y être present et de partager la joye que Vous inspire cet heureux evenement. J’espere que rien ne s’opposera à ce que je jouisse de cette...
19To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 10 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Je dois informer Votre Excellence que je viens de recevoir des instructions du Ministre qui en consequence de la paix portent que les detachemens du corps François actuellement ici seront renvoyés en France sans delai. Je vais prendre des mesures pour cette evacuation en cas que Vous ne trouviés aucune cause de la differer. J’attend incessament M. le Duc de Lauzun qui donnera les ordres...
20To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 30 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
They write me from New York that the french naval Prisoners at that place will shortly be sent to Dobbs ferry—I have to request your Excellency to give orders that they may be furnished with the Subsistence and other assistance their situation may require directing the persons who shall be charged with this business to keep exact accounts of the expence which I will take care to have repaid. I...
21To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 28 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Chevalier De la Luzerne presents his respectful compliments to his Excellency General Washington and begs the favour to order the enclosed Letter for Capt. Macarty to be forwarded to Portsmouth by the earliest opportunity. As the Duke de Lauzun will probably soon wait upon his Excellency at Camp he begs to Keep the enclosed letter to his direction till his arrival. DLC : Papers of George...
22To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 24 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
C’est avec la joye la plus vive et la plus sincere que j’ai l’honneur d’informer Votre Excellence de la conclusion de la paix. Elle couronne de la maniere la plus heureuse Vos travaux et les efforts des Etats unis. Vous partagerés surement la satisfaction complete que cet evenement me cause et je prends toute la part possible à celle que Vous eprouverés. Vous avés contribué d’une maniere si...
23To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 15 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Vôtre Excéllence recevra sans doute des nouvelles directes de l’etat des affaires en Europe; j’ai pensé néanmoins qu’il pourroit être interéssant pour vous d’être informé de quelques détails que j’ai eu ordre de ne pas rendre publics, mais dont le Congrès aura également connoissance. Le Ministère anglois s’est haté de conclure un Traité eventuel de paix avec les Etats unis, et leur a accordé...
24To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 10 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Sa Majesté a été informée des marques de joie que l’armée americaine a donnée à l’occasion de la naissance de Mgr le Dauphin. Elle a vu avec beaucoup de Satisfaction la part que Mrs les officiers et les Soldats americains ont prise à cet heureux évenement; Le Roy m’ordonne de vous témoigner sa Sensibilité à ce Sujet et me charge en même tems d’assurer l’armée americaine et le Général qui la...
25To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 10 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
His Majesty has been informed of the marks of Joy shewn by the American Army; on the birth of the Dauphin and it has given him great satisfaction to see the part which the American Officers and soldiers have taken in that happy event. The King has ordered me to make known to you his sensibility on this Occasion and has charged me to assure the American Army and the General who commands it—of...
26To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 8 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
J’ai recu la lettre dont Votre Excellence m’a honnoré et celle qui etoit destinée pour M. le Comte de Rochambeau à qui je l’envoye à Baltimore après l’avoir cachetée. Les pieus de canon ont été remises chés moi et je les garderai jusqu’à la paix suivant le desir de M. le Comte de Rochambeau. J’ai l’honneur d’être avec un respectueux attachement Monsieur, De Votre Excellence, le très humble et...
27To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 18 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à Votre Excellence une lettre que je la supplie de faire partir en toute diligence après l’avoir lue et cachetée. J’espere que l’arrivée de mes Depêches me permettra d’entrer dans plus de details. Il importe de recommander aux Exprès de la chaine de se tenir prets à porter les paquets que je crois pouvoir expedier incessament par un second courrier. J’ai l’honneur...
28To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 11 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que Vous m’avés fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 3. de ce mois. Je prens la liberté de Vous adresser celle que j’ecris à M. le Mis de Vaudreuil. Elle contient mon opinion touchant la maniere de proteger efficacemt les cotes de ce Continent et d’en tirer des subsistances pour nos Isles. Je desire bien vivement qu’elle lui parvienne et je crois qu’on ne sauroit recommander trop...
29To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 2 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Minister of France presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency General Washington and begs to order the enclosed letter for Count de Rochambeau to be delivered in his own hand on his arrival in Camp or wherever it may be done with Safety. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
30To George Washington from Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 30 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Minister of France presents his respectful compliments to his Excellency General Washington, and begs to be so kind as to order the inclosed letters to be forwarded as fast as possible. DLC : Papers of George Washington.