History news. Top andxt, John University history professor talks about five aristocrats who fled the french revolution in the 1790s and settled in philadelphia. French influence on the then American Capital the relationship these men formed with political figures of the early republic. At the annualewed meeting of the organization of american historians in providence, rhode island. This is about 15 minutes. Your book, when the United States over french, focuses on five french aristocrats. Were upperlevel aristocrats that ascended from the highest french nobility. All of them were liberals who participated in the early stages of the french revolution and supported until it became too radical and they were forced to flee the country. All of them came to the united talleyrand became the French Foreign minister under several regimes and spent a couple of years in the United States. He had been archbishop in the French Church and he proposed the nationalization of church land. Was left eye