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Article: Negotiating the Louisiana Purchase: Robert Livingston's Mission to France, 1801-1804.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Negotiating the Louisiana Purchase: Robert Livingston's Mission to France, 1801-1804. By Frank W. Brecher. (Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2006. Pp. vi, 194. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 0-7864-2395-1.)
Frank W. Brecher's volume is one of a series that he has published on French-American relations before 1800. By a careful reading of the papers of Robert R Livingston and other sources, he concludes that Livingston had the critical role in the Louisiana negotiations with Charles de Talleyrand, French foreign minister, and later with Napoleon Bonaparte himself. His emphasis is rightly on Livingston's successes in negotiations, such that only a ...
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