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together in delightful communion until supper was announced. Talleyrand 

 ordinarily did not sup, while I ate some rice cooked with milk on the stove 

 in my store. ... I had some excellent Madeira which Talleyrand liked very 

 much. . . . How many times, after the late hour had dispersed the rest of 

 the company, did Talleyrand go with them across the little court-yard and 

 then steal back to prolong the evening with me. He yielded finally when my 

 wife came and said to him: 'Tomorrow you will stay lazily in your bed 

 until noon, whereas your friend must be up and open his shop at seven.' . . . 

 Thus we passed every evening together without missing a single one, in 

 talking of the past, of the present and of the future of our country. In 

 connection with the future we talked of Louisiana and of plans to colonize 

 it for ourselves. Sometimes we talked seriously of the matter and Talley- 

 rand concluded that we must become the governors. 



" In this plan, as well as in others which we made to remain together, 

 Talleyrand and I closed our talks together, our hands clasped in a pledge 

 that for the rest of our lives we would share with one another our failures 

 and our successes even in money matters. ... In a word never did the 

 common expression, ' united as two fingers of the same hand,' describe so 

 accurately the liaison between two persons as that between Talleyrand and 

 myself." 



At his departure for Europe on June ii, 1796, Talleyrand took 

 with him some two hundred copies of Moreau's " La description de 

 la partie espagnole de St. Domingue " to find sale for them at Ham- 

 burg and in France. He offered to take Moreau's son with him 

 back to Paris and to provide for his education. After his return to 

 Europe Talleyrand did not forget the friend of his days of exile, for 

 the diary contains letters written in affectionate terms from Ham- 

 burg and Paris. It was in fact through Talleyrand that Moreau 

 was permitted to return to France and by Talleyrand's pecuniary 

 aid that he was able to take his family from Bordeaux to the capital. 

 It was due to Talleyrand's influence that Moreau obtained shortly 

 afterwards the position of historiographer at the Ministry of the 

 Marine. 



The diary closes at a date shortly after Moreau's return to Paris 

 and we are left to conjecture as to what were the relations of the 

 two friends in later life. It seems, however, perfectly plausible to 

 suppose that the appointment of Moreau as ambassodar at Parma 

 in 1801 (later to become and remain its regent until his disgrace by 

 Napoleon in 1806) was the result of Talleyrand's influence exerted 

 in his behalf. 



