John Jay Papers

From John Jay to the Consul of the French Republic ( Jean Antoine Bernard de Rozier), 19 September 1795

To the Consul of the French Republic
(Jean Antoine Bernard de Rozier)

[Saturday Eveng. 19 Septr. 1795—]

The Governor is very sensible of the polite attention which induced the consul of the French Republic,1 and the French Citizens to invite him to their “republican Entertainment” on Tuesday next. He would with great Pleasure dine with them on that Day, but while general anxiety Distress & alarm pervade his native City, it will not be in his power to command that Degree of Hilarity which becomes such convivial Scenes—2

LbkC, NNC:JJ Lbk. 10 (EJ: 12897).

1. Jean Antoine Bernard de Rozier (d. 1799), the French vice consul in New York, 1795–98. DHSC description begins Maeva Marcus et al., eds., The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800 (8 vols.; New York, 1985–2007) description ends , 7: 545n3. See Pierre-Auguste Adet, the French minister to the U.S., introducing Rozier to JJ, 26 June 1795, ALS, NNC (EJ: 08563); JJ’s reply of 8 July 1795, ALS, NHyF (EJ: 03532); LbkC, N: Governor’s Lbk. 1 (EJ: 03318).

2. The city was in the midst of an acknowledged yellow fever epidemic; see the editorial note “John Jay and the Yellow Fever Epidemics,” above.

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    From John Jay to the Consul of the French Republic ( Jean Antoine Bernard de Rozier), 19 September 1795
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    Consul of the French Republic
    Rozier, Jean Antoine Barnard de
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    19 September 1795

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    “From John Jay to the Consul of the French Republic ( Jean Antoine Bernard de Rozier), 19 September 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-06-02-0163. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 6, 1794–1798, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 382–383.]