Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Battle of Saratoga: Epic, Tragedy, or Comedy of Manners? 2. Philip Schuyler's Hudson River Visitors, 1776-83 3. Mme de La Tour du Pin's Two-Year Stay in Albany, 1794-96 4. Albany and the Erie Canal Conclusion Albany, Past and Present: Observations and Images (with some musings thrown in) Appendix A Thomas Jefferson and Angelica Schuyler Church in Paris Appendix B The Responses of Two Americans to the French Revolution: Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson Appendix C Talleyrand and the XYZ Affair Appendix D David's Depiction of Talleyrand in The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine Notes Index

About the Author

Warren Roberts is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University at Albany-SUNY. He is the author of Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists: The Public, the Populace, and Images of the French Revolution, also published by SUNY Press; Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution; Jane Austen and the French Revolution; and Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting.

Reviews

"If you love Albany history ... there are rewarding moments [in this book]." - Schenectady Daily Gazette "Warren Roberts has given us a highly personal look at Albany in Revolutionary and Federal periods, to stake out what he believes was the capital's role in national, even world, affairs of the time. Informed by scholarship, Roberts' book is nonetheless directed at a broad audience, one he hopes will discover Albany anew." - Field Horne, Chair, Conference on New York State History