Louis Hue Girardin (1771–1825), educator, journalist, and historian, was a royalist born in Normandy who changed his name from Louis François Picot and fled to America to avoid his enemies during the French Revolution. Starting in 1803 Girardin taught modern languages, history, and geography at the College of William and Mary, and while in Williamsburg he published the short-lived, pioneering illustrated magazine Amœnitatis Graphicæ (1805). With partners and on his own he ran an academy in Richmond, 1807–10, and he later operated similar academies in Milton and Staunton before serving as head of the struggling Baltimore College from 1821 until his death. Girardin briefly edited two Richmond newspapers, the Daily Compiler, 1815–16, and the Virginia Argus in the latter year. He corresponded regularly with TJ, especially during the latter’s retirement. Between 1813 and its publication in Petersburg in 1816, Girardin worked to complete the fourth volume of a History of Virginia (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 464; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library [1829] description ends , 4 [no. 127]) begun by John Daly Burk and Skelton Jones. TJ carefully advised Girardin on this project, seeing this concluding volume, dedicated to TJ and dealing with the American Revolution, as a means of defending his actions as governor of Virginia against criticisms in John Marshall’s Life of Washington (Philadelphia, 1804–07; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 496; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library [1829] description ends , 4 [no. 133]) and Henry Lee’s Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department (Philadelphia, 1812; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 533) (Norfleet, Saint-Mémin description begins Fillmore Norfleet, Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies, 1942 description ends , 166–7; Edith Philips, Louis Hue Girardin and Nicholas Gouin Dufief and Their Relations with Thomas Jefferson: An Unknown Episode of the French Emigration in America [1926]; Wayne Barrett, “Monsieur Girardin’s Prescient Little Magazine,” Colonial Williamsburg 14 [Winter 1991/92]: 24–8; Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820, 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 2:1137, 1142–3; PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 31 vols. description ends , 4:256–68; Malone, Jefferson description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and his Time, 1948–81, 6 vols. description ends , 6:218–24; Baltimore American & Commercial Daily Advertiser, 17 Feb. 1825).