Adams Papers

May 18 Monday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

May 18 Monday.

Dined at Mr. La Frété’s Country Seat, at the Foot of Mount Calvare. The House, Gardens, and Walks are very spacious. It lies upon the Seine—nearly opposite to that Castle whimsically called Madrid, built by Francis I.1—The Company Yesterday, were all single Personnes, except Mr. and Mm. La Frété and myself.

1. Mont Calvaire, also called Mont Valérien, rises above the village of Suresnes, west of the Seine and across from the Bois de Boulogne. For a contemporary view of Mont Calvaire see Jefferson, Papers, ed. Boyd description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd and others, Princeton, 1950– . description ends , 12: facing p. 482, with descriptive information and references in same, p. xxxv–xxxvi. Francis I’s Madrid is described in Dezallier, Environs de Paris, 1779 description begins [Antoine Nicolas Dezallier d’Argenville,] Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, 4e. édn., Paris, 1779. description ends , p. 21–22. See also JA’s Autobiography under this date.

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    “May 18 Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0008-0004-0017. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 2, 1771–1781, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, pp. 312–313.]