![]() ![]() ![]() But the minister caught pneumonia on the way, died the day after Christmas and was hastily buried in the cold ground of Zarnowiec. Barlow, along with the French court and the diplomatic corps, hit the frozen road for Paris. When the beaten dictator fled Moscow, Mr. The second name on the list was that of Joel Barlow, the American minister to France under President Madison who, fleeing from the Russian armies, caught pneumonia and died at the church in Zarnowiec and where his memory was kept by residents who contributed to the carving of a memory stone and where it still stands within the church’s entry.īarlow, in forlorn pursuit of a treaty with France, followed Napoleon to Vilna, Lithuania, during the bitter winter of 1812. Cut into its green surface were the names of Foreign Service members who died as heroes. Within the foyer of the US State Department’s diplomatic entrance there once stood a marble tablet enclosed by a lighted entablature. American Writers Who Were Diplomats by William Sommers ![]()
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