Théodore Charles Mozard, consul de la République françáise, pour les états de New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, & Connecticut, résidant à Boston
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Paris or Boston?
Language: fre
Subjects: Consuls; Diplomats; Broadsides
Other titles: Théodore Charles Mozard, consul de la République françáise, pour les états de New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, etc. Connecticut, résidant à Boston.
Notes: Title from caption in letterpress below engraved head piece.

Engraved head piece, with plate mark measuring approximately 10.6 x 21.5 cm., depicts a naval scene with the flags of France, the wheat sheaf, a cornucopia, armaments, and an oval image of Marianne with her spear and Phrygian cap; on a scroll around the oval is engraved "Republique francaise", while below is engraved "Liberté" and "Egalité" on either side below the image and "Consulat de Boston" engraved below in the center.

Charles-Théodore Mozard was a printer and bookseller; he was born in Paris on February 2, 1755 and arrived in the French colony of Saint-Domingue before his 18th birthday; he was actively involved in printing journals especially that of the "Affiches américaines", the "Gazette de Saint-Domingue", and the "Almanach général de Saint-Domingue". He was also an amateur scientist and a member of several learned societies such as the Société royale des sciences et arts du Cap-François and the Société d'histoire naturelle de Philadelphie. Having lost his workshop and store to fire during the revolts in Saint-Domingue, he fled Haiti in 1791 and arrived in Paris in 1792. He was named French consul to Boston in 1794 and served in that office until 1799, living and working in Boston, whereafter he returned to Paris.

This half sheet, printed in folio format, may be an announcement of Charles-Théodore Mozard's appointment as French consul to Boston in 1794, an oversized calling card of sorts, an exemplar of letterhead, or, perhaps, part of a larger document, which has been lost.

John Carter Brown Library copy is trimmed unevenly following the tail piece below the fourth line of letterpress text.

John Carter Brown LIbrary copy imperfect: once folded, there are tears on the verso which have been repaired with tape; the sheet is trrimmed beyond the plate mark of the large engraved head piece on the left side of the sheet.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf and Womser Funds.