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Collection Reference Number GLC03281.05
From Archive Folder Collection of letters to the French Ambassador to America, Comte de Moustier, from various American statesmen and Lafayette 
Title Gilbert de Lafayette to Comte de Moustier regarding importation of whale oil from US to France (in French)
Date 2 January 1789
Author Lafayette, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834)  
Recipient de Moustier, Comte  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Lafayette comments on the French whale oil industry, particularly the Company of Dunkirk ("dunkerque").
Subjects Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Finance  Whaling  Global History and Civics  France  
People Lafayette, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834)  Moustier, Eléonor-François-Elie, Comte de (1751-1817)  
Place written Paris, France
Theme Foreign Affairs; Government & Politics; Merchants & Commerce; Industry
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859