With Americans of Past and Present Days

Summary

Jusserand gathers essays on the long friendship between France and the United States, from Rochambeau and the soldiers who aided the American Revolution to the diplomatic ties of his own era. Writing as the French ambassador in Washington, he reads American character through a sympathetic outsider's eye, blending narrative history with personal reflection. The book stands as an early celebration of transatlantic alliance, published as the United States moved toward entering the First World War.