| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804–1815. By Peter P. Hill. (Dulles: Potomac, 2005. xiv, 289 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57488-879-X.)

If Americans troubled Napoleon Bonaparte, he doubly troubled them, as Peter P. Hill shows in this persuasive account of Franco-American relations between 1804 and 1815. Hill emphasizes Napoleon, but his narrative and analysis straddle the Atlantic Ocean during the wars of this age to show how the relationship unfolded. Americans could not escape this context, so their rhetoric about freedom of the seas and the rights of neutrals voiced impossible dreams that could not affect their tormentors. Hill divides his time among the presidents, the emperor, and their diplomats. If Louis Sérurier, French minister to the United States, was cynical, Joel Barlow, the American minister to France, was ebullience and optimism personified, pursuing even rumors of an agreement, even though Napoleon offered little but subterfuge. Barlow even chased his hopes across Europe to die of pneumonia in Poland while Napoleon, faced with political ruin after disaster in Russia, ignored him and bolted for Paris.

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