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3140. FRANCE, Friendship.—[continued].

Nothing should be spared on our part to attach this country to us.
It is the only one on which we can rely for
support under every event. Its inhabitants
love us more, I think, than they do any other
nation on earth. This is very much the
effect of the good dispositions with which
the French officers returned.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. ii, 109. Ford ed., iv, 367.
(P. 1787)