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J. J. Jusserand Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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Jean Jules Jusserand was a French diplomat and author. He was ambassador to the United States from 1902 to 1925. A close friend of every U.S. President during that period, he did much to promote friendly Franco-American relations and to win the United States to the Allied side in World War I. Jusserand was also a noted scholar; his works include English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (tr. 1889), Shakespeare in France (1898), and With Americans of Past and Present Days (1916), the first work on U.S. history to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
The collection consists of correspondence and a typescript of J. J. Jusserand while he was French ambassador to the United States. The correspondence includes three letters to Dean Andrew Fleming West at Princeton University, one letter to Charles Scribner, and a letter to "My dear chargé," containing extracts of General Lafayette's letter (12/21/1784) to General Washington. The typescript, which contains holograph corrections and annotations, is titled "How We Revisited France." It describes France before and after World War I and the help it received from the United States in fighting the Germans and later in rebuilding after the war.
The collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject.
Jusserand's letters to Andrew F. West were a gift of Dean West on Sept. 29, 1927.
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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2006
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This collection is open for research.
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