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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.10227 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0097] October-December 1790 |
| Title | Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. to Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert giving a detailed description of what the United States owes France |
| Date | 22 November 1790 |
| Author | Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. (fl. 1790) |
| Recipient | Lambert, Charles Claude Guillaume |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Government document |
| Content Description | Detailed description of what the United States owes France, which amounts to about 40 million livres. Discusses the political situation in the United States regarding this debt, the actions of Congress regarding the debt, and dealings with US agents on paying the debt to France. States that "[w]e are informed that the agent of the United States ... has not been able to promise the payment of more than three millions on account of that part of the Debt to France which is now due. We apprehend that it would be an act of great Service to both the United States and to France, to procure the the ... full payment of the french debt." Noted as a copy in the header. Date of copy unknown. Sewn binding. Watermarked with a hunting horn. |
| Subjects | Revolutionary War France Finance Debt Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs Congress |
| People | Lambert, Charles-Guillaume (1726-1793) |
| Place written | Paris, France |
| Theme | Government & Politics; Foreign Affairs; Banking & Economics |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Additional Information | Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. was a bank in Paris. Lambert was the Controller General of Finances in France during the Reign of Terror under Robespierre. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |