Treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic

• Author: Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez
• Pages: 515-522

ANEXO III

TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

The President of the United States of America and the First Consul of the

French Republic in the name of the French People desiring to remove all Source

of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion mentioned in the Second and

fifth articles o f the Convention of the 8th Vendé miaire an 9/30 September 1800

relative to the rights claimed by the United States in virtue of the Treaty concluded

at Madrid the 27 of October 1795, between His Catholic Majesty & the Said United

States, & willing to Strengthen the union and friendship which at the time of the

Said Convention was happily reestablished between the two nations have respec-

tively named their Plenipotentiaries to wit The President of the United States, by

and with the advice and consent o f the Senate of the Said States; Robert R. Li-

vingston Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States and James Monroe Minister

Plenipotentiary and Envoy extraordinary of the Said States near the Government

of the French Republic; And the First Consul in the name of the French people,

Citizen Francis Barbé Marbois Minister of the public treasury who after having res-

pectively exchanged their full powers have agreed to the following Articles.

Article I

Whereas by the Article the third of the Treaty concluded at St Ildefonso the 9th

Vendé miaire an 9/1st October 1800 between the First Consul of the French Repu-

blic and his Catholic Majesty it was agreed as follows.

“His Catholic Majesty promises and engages on his part to cede to the French

Republic six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and Sti-

pulations herein relative to his Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, the Colony or

Province of Louisiana with the Same extent that it now has in the hand of Spain,

& that it had when France possessed it; and Such as it Should be after the Treaties

subsequently entered into between Spain and other States”.

And whereas in pursuance of the Treaty and particularly of the third article the

French Republic has an incontestable title to the domain and to the possession

of the said Territory. The First Consul of the French Republic desiring to give to

the United States a strong proof of his friendship doth hereby cede to the United

States in the name of the French Republic for ever and in full Sovereignty the said

territory with all its rights and appurtenances as fully and in the Same manner as

they have bee n acquired by the French Republic in virtue of the above mentioned

Treaty concluded with his Catholic Majesty.