French, a language in general use at Geneva, was of course familiar to him.
English he also studied.

He is not credited with special proficiency in history, but his teacher in this branch was Muller, the distinguished historian, and the groundwork of his information was solid.

No American statesman has shown more accurate knowledge of the facts of history, or a more profound insight into its philosophy, than Mr.Gallatin.
Education, however, is not confined to instruction, nor is the influence of an academy to be measured by the extent of its curriculum, or the proficiency of its students, but rather by its general tone, moral and intellectual.

The Calvinism of Geneva, narrow in its religious sense, was friendly to the spread of knowledge; and had this not been the case, the side influences of Roman Catholicism on the one hand, and the liberal spirit of the age on the other, would have tempered its exclusive tendency.
While the academy seems to have sent out few men of extraordinary eminence, its influence upon society was happy.

Geneva was the resort of distinguished foreigners.