The History of the Louisiana Purchase
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By no means. Unfor- tunately, my brother did not hold fast to the republicanism to which his spirit in early youth was devoted. Yet I have often wit- nessed the struggle it cost him to free him- self from that early passion, and I do not hesitate to cite as some palliation of my brother's backsliding the desire of the ma- * Lucien Bonaparte et ses Memoires, 1775-1840, tome ii, Paris, Charpentier, 1882. Th. Jung.
73 History of The Louisiana Purchase jority of Frenchmen at that time to submit the...mselves to despotism. He was not won over until continued assaults had been made upon him from the beginning of his eleva- tion to power. In spite of my esteem for Washington, I believe even he would have had some difficulty in keeping firm, if all his valiant companions-in-arms, the civil func- tionaries, too — in fine, the men who with him were co-founders of America — had insisted on his assuming the crown of a king or an emperor." After this preface Lucien refers to his embassy to Madrid in 1801, at which time he had been spurred on by his brother to conclude the treaty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By no means. Unfor- tunately, my brother did not hold fast to the republicanism to which his spirit in early youth was devoted. Yet I have often wit- nessed the struggle it cost him to free him- self from that early passion, and I do not hesitate to cite as some palliation of my brother's backsliding the desire of the ma- * Lucien Bonaparte et ses Memoires, 1775-1840, tome ii, Paris, Charpentier, 1882. Th. Jung.
73 History of The Louisiana Purchase jority of Frenchmen at that time to submit the...mselves to despotism. He was not won over until continued assaults had been made upon him from the beginning of his eleva- tion to power. In spite of my esteem for Washington, I believe even he would have had some difficulty in keeping firm, if all his valiant companions-in-arms, the civil func- tionaries, too — in fine, the men who with him were co-founders of America — had insisted on his assuming the crown of a king or an emperor." After this preface Lucien refers to his embassy to Madrid in 1801, at which time he had been spurred on by his brother to conclude the treaty.
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