Gouverneur Morris | The Wildest Founding Father Of Them All



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFeIY6J4JvE


At one point in his life, Morris shared a mistress with Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Napoleon's foreign minister. Hmmmmm, I wonder if that is why the Louisiana Purchase was so cheap.

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Morris traveled to Paris on a business venture in 1789, and three years later President George Washington appointed him minister to France. Morris saw the worst violence of the French Revolution during his five years in Paris, but he was the only diplomat to remain in the city throughout the Reign of Terror. His French liaisons included a three-year love affair with the novelist Comtesse Adélaïde de Flahaut, who was married to a count 35 years her senior and lived in an apartment inside the Louvre before its conversion to an art museum. Morris shared his mistress with French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, who would later sell the Louisiana Purchase to the United States as Napoleon’s foreign minister.

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https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-ma...ing-father


I think John Malkovich "nailed" the role of Tallyrand in the 2002 TV miniseries, "Napoleon".




If you, or anyone reading this post, haven't seen this miniseries, I do recommend it.

[Napoléon Mini-series (2002) - Part 1



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LcPPS3m9jk