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Aaron Burr in Exile - A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811 (Paperback)
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Aaron Burr in Exile - A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811 (Paperback)
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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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