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The Monroe Mission to France, 1794-1796

Beverley W. Bond · 1907

A 1907 scholarly study of James Monroe's diplomatic mission to revolutionary France.

A scholarly study of Monroe's diplomatic service in France before his presidency, based on his own papers.

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Beverley W. Bond, The Monroe Mission to France, 1794-1796, 1907.

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This is a scholarly study published in 1907 by Beverley W. Bond, examining James Monroe's diplomatic mission to France between 1794 and 1796. It draws on diplomatic archives and the extensive collection of Monroe's own papers held by the Library of Congress.

Why it matters

Monroe's mission to revolutionary France was an important early episode in United States foreign relations. This study, written over a century later, reflects historians' growing access to primary documents and their efforts to understand Monroe's role as a diplomat during a turbulent period in French and American history.

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