- Description and travel, History, Early works to 1800, Politics and government
A request in 1780 by the French legation to the United States to learn more about the newly formed thirteen states of America stimulated in Jefferson, as he later described it, a "mysterious obligation for making me much better acquainted with my own country than I ever was before."
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Grave, cool, earnest and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1784
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Printed and sold by Prichard and Hall ..., Palgrave, University of N. Carolina Press
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781296602666
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