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[July 24], 6 Therm. II. Letombe, memoir on 
Franco-U.S. alliance; natural and permanent alliance be- 
tween France and U.S.; U.S. not in position to make 
common cause in time of war; decrees of National Convention 
of Feb. 15, 19, 1793; external obstacles to French-U.S. 
alliance due to use of British money power; internal 
obstacles are defects in U.S. Constitution and its chimerical 
balance of powers; timidity of Washington; personal interests 
of J. Adams and others; popular interest and sympathy with 
France; advantages of new treaty of alliance (ff. 62-69). 
[See also volume 18, ff. 92-97, this series.] 
[Nov.]. Lyonnet, considerations on La.; history 
and progress of La.; description of country and of posts 
along Mississippi; inhabitants; productions; ease with which 
France could take it; fatal blow to Spanish empire in America; 
advantages to France; method of attack from upper Mississippi 
(ff. 56-61). [See also correspondance politique . Etats-Unis 
Supplement, volume 7, f . 18 . ] 
[Nov. -Dec], Frim. Ill, [n.s.]. Observations on 
Anglo-American treaty of Nov. 19, 1794; bitter arraignment 
of treaty, and of Jay, who played into hands of British; 
reference to Washington's administration as that of "George 
I"; opposition to treaty in America; Mississippi navigation; 
treaty text implies partition of eastern La. and projected 
conquest of western La.; opinion of Franklin on northwest 
posts (ff . 74-103) . 
[1794-95], An III, [n.s.]. Memoir on Franco-American 
political relations; reasons for loss of advantages which 
should have accrued to France from treaties of 1778; 
Mangourit attributes this loss to weak policy of royal 
government; is rather due to extremes of revolution in France, 
and to lack of government; France now has an established 
government; Directory should negotiate actively for treaty 
with U.S. supplementary to that of 1778; stipulations to 
be made; improvements in consular convention (ff. 70-73). 
[1795, July 22], 4 Therm. Ill, [n.s.]. Memoir on 
Anglo-American treaty of commerce; reports of speeches and 
letters from U.S. on treaty: C. C. Pinckney, F. T. Thomp- 
son, Washington, and others; frontier posts; commercial 
advantages obtained by Britain; nationality of Indians 
around Detroit (ff. 105-118). 
[1795-96?], c. An IV, Mangourit, memoir on validity 
of French claims being assured by U.S. treaties with 
European powers; eleven questions, with answers thereto, 
and notes; can French vessels take prisoners into U.S. ports? 
Can they be seized in U.S. ports? etc. (ff. 126-133). [See 
volume 18, ff. 84-90, this series.] 
[1796, Jan. 3], 14 Pluv. IV. Hauteval, notes on 
Franco-American relations; foreign affairs; finances; 
criticism of French policy towards U.S.; inefficiency of 
French agents (ff. 134-141). 
[May] ; c. An IV, [n.s.]. Memoir on Franco-U.S. 
consular convention; defects (ff. 119-125). 
[1796-97], An V. Ferdinand Bayard, memoir on relations 
with U.S.; astonishing power of Britain; object of French 
policy should be to attack its main source, commercial 
monopoly; English should be expelled from West Indies; negro 
