France’s long-serving ambassador in Washington writes about the men who bound the two republics together. Drawing on unpublished documents, he follows Rochambeau and the French army in the Revolution, Major L’Enfant’s plan for the federal city and Washington’s dealings with the French, then turns to Lincoln, the Franklin medal, and the Shakespeare scholar Horace Howard Furness.
Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for History in 1917, warmly written by a diplomat who loved his host country. Download the free EPUB.