1811, the planters gathered. they cut open a king cake. was january 6, 12 night or epiphany. after cutting open the king cake, the slave serve coffee and the dancing began. the guests did dances, french dances. elegantly young men smoke an smoking gamble that table spread on the outside of iran. you never saw anything more brilliant wrote a french colonial official fresh from paris. at 3:00 in the morning slaves of bringing gumbo and turtle served on huge tables of 70 people each. after the initial parties, many of the planters would go on to mick strays and other such celebrations. when william claiborne the american governor took over control of the city in 1804, the french planters informed him that the only way they could win their loyalty was to hold a party. i want to read you a description of what they served at that party. 196 bottles of madeira, 144 bottles of champagne, 100 bottles of hermitage wine, 67 bottles of randy, 81 bottles of porter, 258 bottles of ale and
1811, the planters gathered. they cut open a king cake. is january 6, 12th night or epiphany. after cutting opening the king cake they serve coffee and the dancing began. english dances and french danced and gambled at table spread out. you never saw anything more brilliant wrote a french colonial official. at 3:00 in the morning slaves would bring in gumbo and turtle, serve huge tables of 70 people each. after the initial party, many of the planters would go on to mixed-race bolts and other such celebrations. when william claiborne, the american governor took over control of the city, in 1804, the french planters informed him that the only way they could win their loyalty was to hold a party. i want to read you a description of what they served at that party. 196 bottles of madeira, a 144 bottles of champagne, 100 bottles of hermitage wine, 67 bottles of brandy, 81 bottles of porter, 258 bottles of a old and 11,360 spanish cigars. the morning after that party, it seemed like
i didn t know anything about this or about my grandfather s ideas, so that just sort of lodged in my head. then i read a book by margaret macmillan called paris 1919, which is about the framing of the treaty of versailles in which is quite a brilliant book and which brilliantly succeeds at teaching, but also at reaching an audience not composed of family members and graduate students, and i thought i would like to do something like that some day. and trying to think about what i could write with my expertise as a british historian i came up with the balfour declaration which coincided nicely with this discovery of my family papers. what was the second part of that question? [inaudible] i will probably but i m waiting to see. it will not be connected with the middle east. [laughter] yes. as i recall [inaudible] well, as you say it is a long complicated process. the very short outline is this. i could go back to that map i suppose but essentially, let s see, the grand s