Note 9 — JOURNAL OF ANDRÉ MICHAUX
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A Spanish document of this period complains of Audrain as having misappropriated funds for his contracts, also charges him with being a radical republican, receiving all the patriots at his house, where dinners were given and toasts drunk to the downfall of monarchy. See American Historical Association Report, 1896, p. 1049.
The commandant at St. Louis was Captain Don Zenon Trudeau, who held the office from 1792-99.—Ed.