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November 17, 2014

Dr. Francois Furstenberg’s ‘When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation’

November 14, 2014 - Segment 4 - We speak to Dr. Francois Furstenberg about his new book 'When the United States Spoke French'. The book follows a group of French émigrés who fled the French Revolution and settled in Philadelphia, where they integrated into some of the most exalted political and financial networks of the young nation.