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tors. It was here that Talleyrand collected material for the papers 

 he read after his return to France, before the Institut, in which he 

 spoke in flattering terms of his stay in this country, — mentioning his 

 asking a chance acquaintance, Benedict Arnold, not knowing him, 

 for letters of introduction, and Arnold's reply that he was the only 

 American who could not help him with his countrymen. Hyde de 

 Neuville, a royalist exile, lived here for some years, after the restora- 

 tion of the Bourbons returned to France, filled some important 

 posts, then came back as French Minister, — was kept busy watching 

 the Napoleonic exiles, some of them alarming him by their mili- 

 tary colony in Texas, and wild schemes for a French Empire in 

 Mexico, with a Bonaparte to reign over it; — he politely returned 

 to Joseph Bonaparte a portrait of Napoleon found at the French 

 Legation in Washington, — returned to France, was Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs under Louis Philippe, and left an Autobiography 

 full of incidents of his life here. 



Later King Louis Philippe, A. Julien, Stanislas Jullien, Larrey, 

 Roux de Rochelles, Guizot, de Tocqueville, Poussin, French ^linister 

 to the United States, Leverrier, Pouchet, Michel Chevalier, Brown 

 Sequard, Elie de Beaumont, Milne Edwards, St. Claire Deville, J. 

 B. Dumas, Verneuil, Claude Bernard, Lesquereux, Renan, Boucher 

 des Perthes, Gasparin, Mariette, Carlier, Leon Say, Broca, Viollet le 

 Due, Claude Jannet, Paul Leroy Beaulieu, Rosny, Pasteur, Levas- 

 seur, Duruy, Nadillac, Taine, Berthelot, George Bertin, IMaspero, 

 Poincare, Becquerel, Darboux, were among the representative 

 Frenchmen of science and letters elected to membership in this 

 Society, thus perpetuating the long roll of French members which 

 began with Buff on. This goodly custom will no doubt long con- 

 tinue as a proof that the alliance of France and the United States, 

 to which this country was so largely indebted for its independence, 

 will be perpetuated by inviting to membership in this Society the 

 leaders of French intelligence in every field of research. 



In the collection of this Society there is manuscript by Mr. 

 Samuel Breck, a member from 1838 until his death in 1862, in his 

 ninety-first year, in which he gives his recollections of some of the 

 early French exiles, members of this Society. He speaks of these 

 too, in the volume of his " Recollections," published in Philadelphia 



