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47 rue Vieille du Temple, Paris 4th:
Here stands the Hotel des Ambassadeurs de Hollande. It was here on October 9th 1776 that Caron de Beaumarchais established his arms trading company, Roderigue Hortalez et Cie, and in his spare time wrote The Mariage of Figaro. Mor ethan one month before the American Declaration of Independance, the French government decided to send secret aid to the Americans. On 10 June 1776, Beaumarchais received one million livres from the French treasury, by order of Louis XVI, and a seimilar sum from Spain. This enabled him to set up his company and sell arms, cannon, munitions, and military supplies to the young republic, and to provide it with credit when necessary. When the American purchasing agen for Congress Silas Deane arrived in Paris in July 1776, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Vergennes told him that while France could not help America officially, Beaumarchais could. The two men met many times in the following months, and Beaumarchais kept Vergennes abreast of their arrangements. On 14 October 1776, in this hotel, Deane and Beaumarchais signed a major contract to provide military equipment, arms, and cannon sufficient for an army of 30,000 men. Between December 1776 and September 1777, eight ships left France for Amerca, one of which was seized by the British in the West Indies. They arried arms and cannon from the Royal French arsenals and French artillery officers, sailing under false names and passports, to help with artillery.
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