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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vergennes , Charles Gravier , Count de 1717 -1787 (search)
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Count de 1717-1787
Statesman; born in Dijon, France, Dec. 28, 1717.
In 1740 he was sent to Lisbon in a diplomatic capacity; in 1750 was minister at the court of the elector of Treves; and from 1755 to 1768 was French ambassador to Turkey.
When Louis XVI.
succeeded to the throne (1774), Vergennes was minister in Sweden.
The King recalled him, and made him minister for foreign affairs in July.
He was the minister with whom the American diplomatists had intercourse during the entire Revolutionary War.
When he was informed of the proclamation of King George and that it had been determined by the British ministry to burn the town of Boston and desolate the country, he exclaimed, prophetically: The cabinet of the King of England may wish to make North America a desert, but there all its power will be stranded; if ever the English troops quit the borders of the sea, it will be easy to prevent their return.
Vergennes could not persuade himself that th
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11 : Paris .—its schools.—January and February , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems Subjective and Reminiscent (search)
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Personal Poems (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
One of the marvels of modern traveling is the announcement that a passenger bent on doing things rapidly may leave London on any night at 8 o'clock, and the second night after, precisely at 8 o'clock--that is, in forty-eight hours--be in Madrid.
The route is by way of Folkestone, Paris, Bordeaux and Treves.