 | Charles Edward Hill - 1922 - 498 sider
...insisted at first upon defining the boundaries. Marbois took the matter up with Napoleon, who replied: "If an obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put one there." He concealed a boundary which he had made definite in his orders to Marshal Victor. Livingston asked... | |
 | Robert McNutt McElroy - 1927 - 212 sider
...of cession, pointed out that the boundaries of the pawned province were uncertain, Napoleon replied: "If an obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put one into the treaty" [see Appendix]. The acquisition of Louisiana settled the old contest over the navigation... | |
 | Montana Historical Society - 1904 - 630 sider
...colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and fiat it had when France possessed it, and such as it should...the eastern bounds of Louisiana?" asked Livingston. "I do not know," . replied Talleyrand. "You must take it as we received it." "But what did you mean... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 sider
...discovery. When the minister of finance mentioned this confusion to Napoleon he was told "that if the obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put it there," I0 and there is sense as well as cynicism in the conqueror's remark. The ambiguities were... | |
 | Howard Jones - 2002 - 334 sider
...the Americans persisted in their inquiries, Foreign Minister Marbois asked Napoleon, who remarked: "If an obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put one there." It is probable that Livingston and Monroe wanted a vague boundary description in the treaty to enable... | |
 | William Gruber - 2002 - 147 sider
...Talleyrand exactly what he should tell the Americans they were about to purchase, the emperor responded, "If an obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put one there." Talleyrand obediently reported to the Americans that they should "construe it [Louisiana] in their... | |
 | Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman - 2008 - 284 sider
...efforts by American negotiators to define the boundaries more precisely with the remark to his advisers that " '[i]f an obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put one there.' "4 The American minister to France, Robert Livingston, related the following conversation with French... | |
 | 270 sider
...now about to be transferred to the United States. When he said so, Talleyrand replied "that if the obscurity did not already exist, it would perhaps be good policy to put it there." So Jefferson : let us leave the westward extent of the northern boundary indefinite. The... | |
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I do not know," replied Talleyrand. "You must take it as we received it." "But what did you mean to take?" said Livingston. "I do not know, 
