Nicolas Marie Quinette de Rochemont (1762–1821), French public official, was born in Soissons, where he was a notary public before the French Revolution. He was successively appointed an administrator of the department of Aisne and that department’s deputy to the Legislative Assembly, where he strongly supported the revolution and advocated the confiscation of émigré property. Quinette de Rochemont was elected to the subsequent National Convention and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. During a mission to the French army he was taken prisoner by the Austrians and held for over two years. Quinette de Rochemont was released in a prisoner exchange in 1793 and served on the Council of Five Hundred, 1796–97. In 1799 he was named interior minister. Napoleon made him prefect of the department of Somme after taking power later that year. Quinette de Rochemont stayed in this position through Napoleon’s 1815 downfall, when he became a member of the provisional government. In 1816 he was exiled as a regicide, arriving in New York in April of that year. Quinette de Rochemont traveled in the United States for several months in 1817 and paid a visit to TJ at Monticello that June. By early in 1818 he had resolved to return to Europe, and he settled in Brussels, where he died (Biographie universelle description begins Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, new ed., 1843–65, 45 vols. description ends , 34:655–6; Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale description begins J. C. F. Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’a nos jours, 1852–83, 46 vols. description ends , 41:355; Bennington, Vt., Green-Mountain Farmer, 15 Apr. 1816; New-York Columbian, 19 July 1817; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 11 Oct. 1817; New-York Evening Post, 27 July 1821).

One of the unidentified brochures enclosed here was a work by Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, possibly his pamphlet De La Liberté des Brochures, des Pamphlets et des Journaux (Paris, 1814).