Love Canal

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The international situation
favored the American diplomats. Louisiana was of
diminishing importance to France. The costly revolt
in Haiti forced the French emperor Napoleon I to
reconsider his plan to make Hispaniolia the keystone
of his colonial empire, and impending war with Great
Britain made him question the hardness of holding
Louisiana against that great naval power. He
decided to sell Louisiana to the United States. On April
11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice
de Talleyrand opened negotiations by asking the
surprised Livingston what the United States would
give for all of Louisiana. Bargaining began in earnest
the next day, on Monroe’s arrival in Paris. On April
29, the U.S. envoys agreed to pay a total of $15 million
to France; about $ 3,750,000 of this sum covered claims
of U.S. Citizen against France, which the U.S..
government agreed to discharge. The treaty, dated
April 30, 1803, was signed overcome by his ...

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