"Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811 " Topic

"Aaron Burr – Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic – was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for 15 months, he led a marginal existence on the run from creditors and the courts, getting by on handouts. While other Americans in Paris enjoyed official status that insulated them from life in the capital, Burr dreamed up fruitless schemes and pawned his possessions, yet remained in high spirits, enjoying Parisian theater and cafes. He shopped, flirted, paid for sex and associated with friends old and new while gathering the resolve to return to America. Burr's Paris journal is a rare item, with only 250 unexpurgated copies printed in 1903. In it he relates his fascinating stories and describes Parisian life at the height of Napoleon's power. Drawing on Burr's journal and other sources, this book provides a self-portrait of the down-and-out Founding Father abroad"

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Amicalement
Armand

Am "pre-ordered" for this one Armand…

Thank You!

Charlie

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I've recently read two biographies of Burr, and am finishing a biography of his nemesis, Gen. James Wilkinson. I have previously read up on Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

The United States was a real banana republic for the first 50 years or so. Anything could have happened. It's amazing that we put off our first serious civil war until 1861. There's lots of scope in the early republic for alternate history leading to colorful brushfire wars to wargame.

What if the British had backed the Creeks' attempt to establish an independent republic in Florida? What if the Negro Fort has stood off the US Navy? What if Wilkinson had joined Burr and taken the US Army (such as it then was) off to go buccaneering in Mexico? What if?