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3142. FRANCE, Friendship.—[further continued] .

Among the circumstances
which will reconcile me to my new
position [Secretary of State] the most powerful
are the opportunities it will give me of
cementing the friendship between our two
nations.—
To La Duchesse D'Auville. Washington ed. iii, 135. Ford ed., iii, 153.
(N.Y., 1790)