[Malesherbes]

Yesterday on CSPAN, the historian Forrest McDonald told how Morris lost his leg: he was in bed with a woman when her husband walked in. Morris made a dash out the door to his carriage wrapped in a sheet. But the getaway was too fast; the carriage turned over on him and crushed his leg.

Later in Paris he was out in another carriage with Madame de Flahaut when they were accosted by a revolutionary mob. Morris stuck out the stump of his leg and told the mob he had lost it fighting for American liberty.

[cajungirl]

I saw McDonald on talking about that. I really liked McDonald esp when he said he liked us being powerful and thought we were the most trustworthy country in the world to be a world power. Anyway I am ordering the bio of Morris, guess the Brookhiser one will be the most easily read followed by the academic one.

[neverdem]

LOL