Footnote 13: See H, page [xlvii].[(Back)]
Footnote 14: The Count de Vibray is the representative in the female line of the de la Luzerne family, which is extinct in the male line.[(Back)]
Footnote 15: The Marquis de Moustier is the great-grandson of the Count de Moustier.[(Back)]
Footnote 16: Among his most noted works is the bronze statue of the Emperor Napoleon I., placed by Napoleon III. on the column in the Place Vendôme, Paris, which was overthrown by the Communists. The statue has since been replaced on the reconstructed column. M. Dumont, who is a professor in the École des Beaux-Arts, is a member of the Institute, Commander of the Legion of Honor, etc.[(Back)]
Footnote 17: The original of this letter, which is in French, and which was communicated to me in Paris by M. Narcisse Dupré, is undoubtedly in the handwriting of Mr. Jefferson. I have sought in vain for the document mentioned in it. See I, page [1].[(Back)]
Footnote 18: I have found none of this correspondence in the archives of the French Academy, Paris, nor in those of the State Department, Washington, excepting the letter of Colonel Humphreys to M. Dacier, dated Paris, March 14, 1785, for which see page [xiii].[(Back)]
Footnote 19: See Franklin's despatch to the Honorable John Jay, dated Passy, May 10, 1785, page [xiv].[(Back)]
Footnote 20: This is an error. The medals for General Wayne and Major Stewart were composed, at the request of Mr. Jefferson, by the French Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, in 1789. See D, page [">xli].[(Back)]
Footnote 21: This is incorrect, as Congress voted medals to Major Lee, September 24, 1779, and to John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, November 3, 1780.[(Back)]
Footnote 22: Abbreviation of NOMEN, name, or of NESCIO, I know not.[(Back)]