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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.

1. Jean 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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    To James Madison from Louis XVIII, 24 January 1816 (Abstract)
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    Louis XVIII
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    Madison, James
    Date
    24 January 1816

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    “To James Madison from Louis XVIII, 24 January 1816 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0184. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 185.]

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