Louisiana Purchase Treaty (French Exchange Copy of the Convention Between the United States of America and the Republic of France for the Payment of 60 Million Francs for the Purchase of Louisiana), 1803

The Louisiana Purchase consists of three separate agreements between the United States and France: a treaty of cession and two conventions providing for the exchange of monies in the transaction. Pictured is the first of the two conventions (the exchange copy of the convention providing for the payment of 60 million francs by the United States to France, written in French, with France's instrument of ratification signed by the future Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord).
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