When the United States spoke French : five refugees who shaped a nation
2014
973.0944 F992 2014
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Title
When the United States spoke French : five refugees who shaped a nation
Published
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Description
498 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
973.0944 F992 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881146234
Note
Explores the republic's formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these men had been among its leaders. Furstenberg follows these five men -- 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 -- as they left their homes and families in France, crossed the Atlantic, and landed in Philadelphia--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-477) and index.
Contents: Strange reunions: an introduction -- pt. 1. The United States speaks French. France comes to America -- Settling in America : Philadelphia speaks French -- Franco-American networks and polite Atlantic spaces -- pt. 2. The French Revolution in the West. Transatlantic land speculation -- France in the Mississippi Valley -- The émigrés return to France, France returns to America -- A conclusion: Empty houses.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-477) and index.
Contents: Strange reunions: an introduction -- pt. 1. The United States speaks French. France comes to America -- Settling in America : Philadelphia speaks French -- Franco-American networks and polite Atlantic spaces -- pt. 2. The French Revolution in the West. Transatlantic land speculation -- France in the Mississippi Valley -- The émigrés return to France, France returns to America -- A conclusion: Empty houses.
L2014M105
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