No. 416.
Mr. Roustan to Mr. Bayard.
Washington , December 20, 1887. (Received December 21.)
Mr. Secretary of State: By order of my Government I have the honor to inform the Government of the United States that Mr. Jules Grévy having sent in his resignation, the senate and chamber of deputies, united in national assembly at Versailles the 3d of this month, have elected and proclaimed Mr. Carnot President of the French Republic.
The firm resolve of the new President and his cabinet is to maintain the good relations existing between the Government of the Republic and foreign powers, and thus to contribute to the assurance of peace; but I am charged, Mr. Secretary of State, to express to you in a peculiar manner the value which France attaches to the bonds of cordial amity which exist between our two countries.
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