George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 12 January 1797]

12. Clear & pleasant all day. Wind at So. Wt. All the Diplomatic Corp (except France) dined with me. [34]

The absence of the French minister, Pierre Auguste Adet, from GW’s dinner party was undoubtedly a reflection of the strained relations existing between France and the United States at this time.

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    [Diary entry: 12 January 1797]
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    Washington, George
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    12 January 1797

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    “[Diary entry: 12 January 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0001-0012. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 231.]