ABSTRACT
Commodore Jones anchored the Alliance at l'Orient the 10th of February, 1780. He was destined to pass the ensuing- year almost wholly on shore in France. Jones now renewed Ms hope of getting command of her, when refitted, and Dr. Franklin used all possible diplomatic effort to aid him in his aspiration. Dr. Franklin, then the sole representative of the United States in France and our senior representative in all Europe, had detached Landais from command, had ordered him to report to the Marine Committee for trial on the charges of infamous conduct preferred against him by Commodore Jones. During the period under consideration 1778-79 was developed the only affair in the whole career of Paul Jones that had the flavor of sustained romance, in the sense of a permanent relation with one of the fair sex. The memoirs and historical anecdotes of that period abound with references to Paul Jones as a society man at Paris and Versailles.
