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When Congress appointed an envoy earlier this year to negotiate for badly needed French arms, it did not know that the task was already nearly completed-by the French themselves. The man behind the move: French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes. his agent extraordinary: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, author of the popular comedy, The Barber of Seville. Together, they have been maneuvering for well over a year to win greater support for the American Patriots...
They had remodeled the first few floors of a building on Gravier Street and called it International House. It became the symbol of the brisk new day. International House was designed to draw New Orleanians together in a common aim, to stop cutthroat competition, oppose tariff barriers, sing the praises of the Mississippi Valley and cultivate the commerce of all the world...
...above the June lows. Last month brokers on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange lazily perused their newspapers during most of the trading sessions. Last week they swarmed in a shouting, milling mass as they executed the deluge of buying orders. Their excited turmoil was heard above the traffic in Gravier Street. Loiterers grinned up at the exchange when they caught the yells and cheers of brokers as quotations crashed through to new highs. Cotton houses took on full crews, raised salaries, worked late settling contracts. Though its throne has tottered, dangerously of late, Cotton was again King last week...
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