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8539. TREATIES, Nations and.—[continued].

The treaties between the
United States and France were not treaties
between the United States and Louis Capet,
but between the two nations of America and
France; and the nations remaining in existence,
though both of them have since
changed their forms of government, the treaties
are not annulled by these changes.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 613. Ford ed., vi, 220.
(April. 1793)