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The Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine (French: Traité de Mortefontaine), was signed on September 30, 1800, by the United States and France.The difference in name was due to congressional sensitivity at entering into treaties, due to disputes over the 1778 treaties of Alliance and Commerce between France and the U.S.
Mortefontaine (French pronunciation: [mɔʁt(ə)fɔ̃tɛn]) is a commune in the Oise department in Northern France. The 17th-century Château de Mortefontaine was bought by Joseph Bonaparte , [ 3 ] elder brother of Napoléon Bonaparte , in 1798.
The Château de Mortefontaine was the site of the signing of the Convention of 1800 (also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine), a treaty of friendship between France and the United States of America. The preliminaries of the 1802 Peace of Amiens were also negotiated at the château. [2]
The Quasi-War [a] was an undeclared war from 1798 to 1800 between the United States and the French First Republic.It was fought almost entirely at sea, primarily in the Caribbean and off the East Coast of the United States, with minor actions in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Mortefontaine is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Mortefontaine, Aisne , in the Aisne département Mortefontaine, Oise , in the Oise département
Souvenir de Mortefontaine (English:Recollection of Mortefontaine) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, created in 1864. It is a scene of tranquillity: a woman and children quietly enjoying themselves by a glass-flat, tree-flanked lake. It is held in the Louvre, in Paris.
On 29 November 1849 in Paris, he married Mathilda Amelie Lambert, (Mortefontaine, 11 June 1827 – Haarlem, 2 October 1855), daughter of John Lambert and Charlotte Robertine Mirandolle. From this marriage was born on 26 August 1851 a son, Johannes Enschedé V.
The Thermidorians (French: Thermidoriens, named after the month of Thermidor) [4] were a political group during the First French Republic. They formed in 1794 and dominated the last year of the National Convention , which during this phase became known as the Thermidorian Convention ( French : Convention thermidorienne) , and the Directory ...