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American Impressions of a French Monarchist

This article present information related to the book "De Bacourt. Souvenirs d'un Diplomate." Who was M. de Bacourt? A diplomat of the old school, who entered the service in 1822, was Frtalran Talleyrand's First Secretary of Legation at London in 1830-34, Minister at Carlsruhe from 1835 to 1840, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States in 1840-42, and ended Minister at Turin, where the revolution of 1848 overtook him, and he resigned rather than serve the Republic. He became the depositary of Talleyrand's Memoirs—a striking tribute to his discretion and probity —and in assigning them, on his death in 1868, to their present custodians, added twenty years to the term of thirty already fixed for their publication by their author.