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

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

Merrill, Jane
Endicott, John

Paperback

Historical FiguresPolitical Biographies

ISBN10: 0786494913
ISBN13: 9780786494910
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Feb 2 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

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.

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