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same perfect religious freedom that he saw practiced in the United 

 States and he also advised the sale of Louisiana to the United 

 States as a method of strengthening the ties between the two countries. 



One would like to see the journal kept by Moreau de St. Mery 

 during his residence in Philadelphia. Did he in his palmy davs as 

 a member of the Council of State under the Empire or in the time 

 of his modest clerkship in the Marine Department, meet his old 

 visitors at his book store in Philadelphia, Louis Philippe, Talley- 

 rand and Rochefoucauld and A'olney and the other exiles now re- 

 stored to their old prosperity, and did they recall the meetings of the 

 American Philosophical Society and their attendance and share in 

 them? His large collection of historical papers, now rescued from 

 oblivion by calendars by and for the American students of historv, 

 perpetuates his name and memory and services, more than do the 

 volumes he wrote and printed and published at his book store at 

 Front and Walnut Streets. 



The latest historian of the French Revolution, Aulard, frequently 

 mentions Moreau de St. Mery and his share in it. and refers to the 

 collection of historical documents. His name does not figure in Dr. 

 ^Mitchell's capital novel, "The Red Cit}-," with its picturesque account 

 of the French exiles living here in the closing years of the eighteenth 

 century, nor in Kipling's picturesque story of Philadelphia at that 

 time. x\ll the more reason therefore for an attempt to recall the 

 memory of the French exiles who were members of the American 

 Philosophical Society and especially of that one who figures most 

 often and !;.:st usefully in its records of that time, ^loreau de St. 

 Mery. 



Of the other French exiles during their residence in Philadelphia, 

 there is occasional mention, as for instance in Talle}Tand's " Me- 

 moirs." His two papers on the L'nited States and the relations 

 between France and this countr_\-, read before the French Institute, 

 were no doubt largely inspired by what he heard at the meetings of 

 the American Philosophical Society, and his share in the sale of 

 Louisiana to the Lmited States helped to secure that vast territory 

 for the future growth of the young republic and its ultimate great 

 development. 



