Abstract
This translation from French of Stève Sainlaude’s PhD dissertation, originally published in multiple volumes in France, is a very welcome addition to the diplomatic history of the U.S. Civil War. For too long, our focus has been on the United Kingdom’s relationship with both sides in the Civil War with the French story included as an afterthought. The textbook view was that while the French emperor, Louis Napoleon III, was sympathetic to the Confederacy and wanted to recognize it as a legitimate nation, he was afraid to act without British support. Hence, the focus on British diplomacy. Sainlaude’s work, however, shows that the French government’s interaction with the conflict was far more complicated. Sainlaude organizes his work thematically, dividing the book into three sections: “The French Position”; “France’s View of the South”; and “The Future Lies in Union.” The first section gets into the details of French diplomacy during the...
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