Resources
and Links to the People and Places in Buying Louisiana

 
   
                  

 

The Louisiana Purchase story...

 
       Monroe, Livingston and Talleyrand in Paris

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was probably the greatest real estate deal in the history of the world. Almost doubling the size of the United States, the final treaty, signed by France and the U.S., was the product of  many months of difficult diplomatic efforts and negotiations.

LOUISIANA PURCHASE links...

The Yale Law-Web features a complete research site on the Louisiana Purchase and Diplomacy.

Encyclopedia at Bartleby's
Brief description.

The Original Document can be viewed here (National archives).

Capsule history and animated map of growth of US boundaries


  Author's Complete Bibliography Page

 

Buying Louisiana
An Eyewitness's Account 
of the Louisiana Purchase
Josée Clerens

Format: Paperback
Size : 6" x 9"
Pages: 317
ISBN: 0-595-12916-1
Publisher: Writers Club Press.
Pub. Date: October 2000

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The People and Places in
Buying Louisiana


Thomas Jefferson 
(The President)
Biography from the White House
Outline of events
Letters of Thomas Jefferson


Bonaparte 

(The First Consul of France)
Links to Everything Napoleonic
Capsule History of the Purchase


Joséphine 
(Wife of Bonaparte)
Capsule Biography

 

Talleyrand
(French Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Biography



Robert R. Livingston
(U.S. Minister to France)
Brief bio and photo of statue

Bio from Bartleby's (Go to paragraph 8)


Barbé-Marbois
(French Minister of Finance)
Article, Encyclopedia Britannica

 


James Monroe
(Special Envoy to France)
White House Biography

New Orleans History
A timeline for Louisiana, 1802-1810
Governors of Louisiana


Charles IV
of Spain (Carlos)
Article

 

 

Additional References
Juan Manuel de Salcedo 
William C. C. Claiborne 
Pierre Clement de Laussat
Natchez Trace



About the Author
Author's Bibliography

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