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"In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French 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. They were liberal aristocrats and ardent Anglophiles, convinced of the superiority of the British system of monarchy and constitution. They also idealized the new American republic, which seemed to them an embodiment of the Enlightenment ideals they celebrated. But soon the Revolutionary movement got ahead of them, and they found themselves chased across the Atlantic. François 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 -- then America's capital, its principal port, and by far its most cosmopolitan city and the home of the wealthiest merchants and financiers. The book vividly reconstructs their American adventures, following along as they integrated themselves into the city and its elite social networks, began speculating on backcountry lands, and eventually became enmeshed in Franco-American diplomacy. Through their stories, we see some of the most famous events of early American history in a new light, from the diplomatic struggles of the 1790s to the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. By the end of this period, the United States was on its way to becoming a major global power. Through this small circle of men, we find new ways to understand the connections between U.S. and world history, and gain fresh insight into American history's most critical era. Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, When the United States Spoke French offers a fresh perspective on the tumultuous years of the young nation, when the first great republican experiments were put to the test"--… (altro)
A surprising history of the fulcrum years (1792 to 1803) of the formation of the United States Republic and the role played by 5 major French exiles living in the States during The Terror. I have never read a better explanation of how the continental geography shaped Americans' thinking and behavior to this day and how streams of European capital helped overcome and develop it, hence enriching 19th century Europe. ( )
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For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Job 5:6-7
Dedica
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For Yliette, My spark
Incipit
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Revolutionary sparks, set off by the great explosion in France, fly upward. Most fall in Europe.
Citazioni
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Sanctioned by the authority of long usage, and by the memory of our ancestors, who...had often gone forth in search of adventures and military employment...we now eagerly sought the means of transporting ourselves, individually, across the Atlantic, to be ranged under the banners of American freedom.
Our manners will be gentle, our conversation animated, our labor active. We will be the French people you have known, and not the present nation. - Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles
In the days of my power and affluence, under the ancient regime of France, I kept fifty servants. And yet my coat was never as well brushed as it is now, when I brush it myself. - Liancourt
We spend millions to kill people and conquer them...Eh bien, one-hundredth of that amount employed in entertaining them would make surer conquests. - Volney
Mutual good offices, mutual affection and similar principles of government seemed to have designed the two people for the most intimate communion, and even of a complete exchange of citizenship among the individuals composing them. - Thomas Jefferson
We were assembled on the squares. The two leaders harangued their partisans. I was seated, in the company of other women, on the steps of a front stoop, from which Hamilton was speaking to people pressed into the square. A stone was thrown that hit him in the head, but without hurting him very much. Me nonetheless continued his speech, which excited a prodigious enthusiasm. Then everyone went home, and he very calmly offered me his arm to take me home. - Madame de La Tour du Pin
I put on the Cocarde. - Moreau, Nov. 4 1796
Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.
Ultime parole
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France and the United States had by then come full circle.
"In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French 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. They were liberal aristocrats and ardent Anglophiles, convinced of the superiority of the British system of monarchy and constitution. They also idealized the new American republic, which seemed to them an embodiment of the Enlightenment ideals they celebrated. But soon the Revolutionary movement got ahead of them, and they found themselves chased across the Atlantic. François 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 -- then America's capital, its principal port, and by far its most cosmopolitan city and the home of the wealthiest merchants and financiers. The book vividly reconstructs their American adventures, following along as they integrated themselves into the city and its elite social networks, began speculating on backcountry lands, and eventually became enmeshed in Franco-American diplomacy. Through their stories, we see some of the most famous events of early American history in a new light, from the diplomatic struggles of the 1790s to the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. By the end of this period, the United States was on its way to becoming a major global power. Through this small circle of men, we find new ways to understand the connections between U.S. and world history, and gain fresh insight into American history's most critical era. Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, When the United States Spoke French offers a fresh perspective on the tumultuous years of the young nation, when the first great republican experiments were put to the test"--
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