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The Diplomatic and Naval Effects of the Prince de Joinville's Note sur L'etat des forces navales de la France of 1844

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C.I. Hamilton
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University of the Witwatersrand

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1 F[oreign] O[ffice] 27, 696.

2 Revue des deux mondes, May 1844, p. 709.

3 Ibid. p. 725. (The prince did support Dupetit-Thouars warmly in the chamber of peers, see Cowley to Aberdeen of 9 Aug. 1844, F.O. 27, 699.)

4 Ibid. p. 715.

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16 17 July 1844, Joinville papers, A.N., 300 AP III 111, letters from Louis-Philippe and from the royal family. I am most grateful to the comte de Paris for authorization to consult the papers of the royal family.

17 Aberdeen papers, B.M. Additional MS 43132, fos. 266–8.

18 Copy enclosed in Jarnac's letter to Guizot of 1 Aug., Guizot papers, 42 AP 69 1/3.

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34 Letter of 22 December 1841 to M. de Verninac, private letter book 1841–4, A.N., GG2 15 (marine). In a letter of 1 Sept. 1844 to another officer Baudin criticized the brochure on the same grounds, letter book 1844–7, PP. 43–8, ibid.

35 Dossier of letters to the king from the prince, 1836–57, Joinville papers, A.N., 300 AP III, 109.