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The mines of Paris (French: carrières de Paris – "quarries of Paris") comprise a number of abandoned, subterranean mines under Paris, France, connected together by galleries.
An exhibit on eighteenth century U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and his relationship with John Laurens. Multiple historians consider how to interpret the intimacy between Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens during the American Revolution.
In September 1783, when agreements had been readied between Britain and all the other belligerents, the Treaty of Paris was signed. The British had recognized the independence of the United States. Seemingly against all odds, Americans had won the Revolutionary War. —Robert M.S. McDonald.
8 Ιαν 2021 · Early Letters. The first surviving letter, written by Laurens, is from almost a year and a half after he and Hamilton first met. The content of the letter concerns the slander of Washington spread by their shared enemy Charles Lee, slander which would eventually lead Laurens to fight a duel with Lee, with Hamilton as his second.
7 Σεπ 2016 · The Carrières de Paris (Quarries/mines of Paris) have existed for centuries, as medieval and Renaissance miners tunneled beneath the city for limestone and gypsum, which is used in plaster of Paris. What started as open-air mines became underground excavations by the 15th century.
By the 1750s, Henry Laurens and his business partner George Austin had become wealthy as owners of one of the largest slave trading houses in North America. John was the eldest of the five children who survived infancy.
Laurens accompanies his regiment and Hamilton to a ball, where Hamilton meets his future wife Eliza ("A Winter's Ball"). Laurens is the best man at Hamilton's wedding, and good-naturedly teases him afterwards about finally settling down, a jibe at Hamilton's flirtatious nature.
