CORRESPONDANCE DES CONSULS 
Etats-Unis 
The French consular archives prior to 1837 of the 
Foreign Office are deposited in the Archives Nationales 
in Paris rather than at the ministry on the Quai d'Orsay. 
They nevertheless remain essentially a part of the Foreign 
Office materials. 
Volumes and cartons constituting the Correspondence 
des Consuls are arranged alphabetically under the names of 
states with which France maintained relations. Subdivisions 
of these various major series bear the names of specific 
consular jurisdictions, also arranged alphabetically. 
Individual items within each subdivision are classified 
chronologically. 
The materials inventoried below represent an arbi- 
trary selection from the series Etats-Unis only. Circum- 
stances beyond the control of the editors have made it 
impossible to obtain access to other series. 
2513 (Alexandrie en Virginie, 1795-1797; Annapolis. 1784) 
[This is a carton containing two folders, one devoted 
to Alexandria, Va., the other to Annapolis, Md.] 
Alexandria, 1795-1797: 
Despatches from Paul Arnould Cherni, vice-consul at 
Alexandria, Va., to Commission and [later] Minister of 
Exterior Relations, concerning his functions and salary; 
exportation of flour from Alexandria ; favorable American 
opinion of French commercial methods and goods; necessity 
of establishing French commercial houses in U.S.; purchases 
in U.S. by British agents of horses and other military 
supplies; French refugees from West Indies; gratitude of 
Virginians to French; strength of British cabal. 
Extracts of letters to Cherni from Genet, La Forest, 
Letombe, and Adet (1793-1796), relating to salary. 
Ministerial memoranda on correspondence of Cherni, 
1796. 
Extracts in French translation from American news- 
papers relating to British purchases in U.S., 1796. 
Affidavits and copies of letters relating to American 
vessels loading for West Indies, and to American vessels 
seized by British in West Indies, 1796. 
Annapolis, 1784: 
Feb. 20. Marbois to Marechal de Castries, 
transmitting copies of instructions to French consuls in 
U.S.; Congress at present inactive, only seven states being 
represented. Enclosing: instructions to French consuls 
and vice-consuls in U.S., dated Jan. 1, 1784; concerns 
principally salaries and allowances of consular agents. 
2514 (Baltimore. 1781-1814) [Carton] 
Despatches from Chevalier d'Annemours (1781-1792), 
L. Arcambal (1810-1811), Duhail (An IV), Leloup (1811- 
1813) , Jacques Levillain (An X) , F. Moissonnier (An II) . 
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