The French Legation house, now located east of I-35 on 802 San Marcos Street, is the only structure a foreign government has erected on American soil.  Built in 1840-1841 at the commission of Monsieur Jean Pierre Isidore Dubois de Saligny, chargé de affairs for the French government in Texas.  After Dubois de Saligny left Austin and Texas became a part of the Union, the house passed into the hands of the Robertson family, who held it until the mid-twentieth century.  The house stood amidst the waves of immigrants who settled in the area surrounding it, from Swede