Strange reunions -- France comes to America -- Settling in America : Philadelphia speaks French -- Franco-American networks and polite Atlantic spaces -- Transatlantic land speculation -- France in the Mississippi Valley -- The émigrés return to France, France returns to America -- Empty houses.
Summary:
Explores the republic's formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Napoleon's future foreign minister; theorist/reformer Rochefoucauld, the duc de Liancourt; Louis-Marie Vicomte de Noailles; Moreau de Saint-Méry; and Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Comte Volney.
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