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To James Madison from Louis XVIII, 24 January 1816 (Abstract)

From Louis XVIII, 24 January 1816 (Abstract)

§ From Louis XVIII. 24 January 1816, Paris. Letter of credence for “Sieur Hyde de Neuville” as French minister to the United States.1

RC (DNA: RG 59, Communications from Heads of Foreign States, France); Tr (DLC). RC 1 p.; in French; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Louis; countersigned by Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.

1Jean Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville (1776–1857), arrived in Washington in June 1816 to take up the post of French minister to the United States. A dedicated supporter of the French royal family, Hyde de Neuville had lived in exile in the United States between 1806 and 1814. For an account of his tenure in Washington between 1816 and 1822, see Françoise Watel, Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville (1776–1857): Conspirateur et diplomate [Paris, 1997], 117–56).

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