THE DIARY OF A VOYAGE TO THE UNITED STATES, 

 BY MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY. 



By STEWART L. MIMS. 



(Read April i8, iqij?.) 



In his Som'enirs intimes siir Talleyrand, published at Paris in 

 1870, J\I. Amedee Pichot remarked in his preface: 



" If we were to write a complete biography of Talleyrand, we would be 

 able to give some details, very little known, concerning his exile in America, 

 where M. de Beaumetz and he found themselves with other notable emigres 

 among whom was Moreau de Saint-Mery. . . . This information has been 

 obtained from an unpublished diary, kept by Moreau de Saint-Mery, which 

 M. Margry has examined and from which he has communicated to us certain 

 extracts concerning the sojourn of Talleyrand at New York, Boston and 

 Philadelphia." 



Pichot made two quotations from this " unpublished diary," one 

 at pp. 209-212, describing the intimate relations existing between 

 Talleyrand and Moreau, the other at pp. 212-213 giving the text of 

 a letter written by Talleyrand to the French Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs to acknowledge a letter inclosing the decree of September 3, 

 1795, which reopened the doors of France to the famous exile. 

 Pichot contented himself with these two citations, either because 

 his friend Margry^ did not choose to give him more material, or 

 because the limitations of his own study did not permit him to quote 

 more extensively from the notes which were actually communicated 

 to him. 



Although many studies have appeared on the life of Talleyrand 

 since 1870 and some have made use of Pichot's citations, apparently 

 none, not even such recent biographers as MacCabe, Lacombe and 



^ Pierre Margry, author of " Memoires et Documents pour servir a I'his- 

 toire des origines frangaises des pays d'outre-mer" and of some studies 

 relating to the history of French colonization in America, was at this time 

 archivist at the Ministry of the Marine. 



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