Letter
John Bigelow to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, February 12, 1866
Mr. Bigelow to Mr. de Lhuys
Legation of the United States, Paris, February 12, 1866.
Sir: I have the honor to transmit to your excellency a copy of the Opinion Nationale of the 11th instant, for the purpose of directing your excellency’s attention to a communication which appears in its columns, purporting to have been written by Marshal Bazaine, commander-in-chief of the French army in Mexico.
If perfectly convenient, will your excellency have the goodness to inform me whether there is any room for questioning the authenticity of that communication?
I have the honor to be, very truly, your excellency’s very obedient and very humble servant,
JOHN BIGELOW.
His Excellency M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.