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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.
The subsequent negotiations, embodied in the Convention of 1800 (also called the "Treaty of Mortefontaine") of September 30, 1800, affirmed the rights of Americans as neutrals upon the sea and abrogated the alliance with France of 1778. The treaty failed to provide compensation for the $20,000,000 "French Spoliation Claims" of the United States ...
Before his additions, only the Petit Parc existed, which was not part of the Vallière estate. [2] 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.
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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.
It was signed by delegates of King Louis XVI and the Second Continental Congress in Paris on February 6, 1778, along with the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a secret clause providing for the entry of other European allies; [1] together these instruments are sometimes known as the Franco-American Alliance [2] or the Treaties of Alliance. [3]
The clause took its name from a declaration read by Friedrich Martens, [2] the delegate of Russia at the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899. [3] The Clause was introduced as compromise wording for the dispute between the Great Powers who considered francs-tireurs to be unlawful combatants subject to execution on capture and the smaller states who maintained that they should be considered lawful ...