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Gouverneur Morris is a somewhat maligned and neglected major figure of the early United States, despite having been a principal contributor to the Constitutional debates (much of the document's language was his) and a primary designer of the modern executive branch. Morris's personality, wit, and eloquence matched those of his more famous compatriots. Moreover, he was a romantic figure whose sense of humor and powerful physical presence attracted many women. Recent major biographies by Richard Brookhiser and William H. Adams have reintroduced Morris to the American public, and Melanie Miller's Envoy to the Terror reexamines Morris's important role in a watershed event in world history, the French Revolution. This book concerns Morris's time in France (1789-94), where he tried desperately to help the revolutionaries accomplish their goals bloodlessly while he also moved in fashionable circles and had numerous affairs, including one with Talleyrand's mistress. As a private citizen and later as the U.S. ambassador after Jefferson, whose experiences in Paris pale by comparison, Morris advised the French on drafting their first constitution, saved many French friends from execution, and
