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To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 19 April 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Louis-André Pichon

19 April 1802, Georgetown. In his letter of 4 Jan. 1802,1 Pichon reported on the affair of the French ship Cassius, sequestered by the U.S. at Philadelphia in 1795, abandoned by the French minister, Adet, and subsequently sold. Requests restitution.

RC (DNA: RG 59, NFL, France, vol. 1). 1 p.; in French; dated 29 Germinal an X. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Pichon.

1. PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (3 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 2:368 and n. 2.

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    To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 19 April 1802 (Abstract)
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    Pichon, Louis-André
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    Madison, James
    Date
    19 April 1802

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    “To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 19 April 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0168. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 140.]

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