The Count, the Moose, and Thomas Jefferson
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.7 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
After the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers were desperate to prove America's strength on the world stage, especially compared to Europe. To Thomas Jefferson, this meant refuting the theory of "degeneracy" put forth by French naturalist, the Comte de Buffon. And of course, there was only one way to do that: have a moose shipped across the Atlantic.
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| 1:02.6 | The year was 1784 and Thomas Jefferson had a problem. |
| 1:09.0 | He was a Frankophile. |
| 1:10.9 | He was just about to set out for France as an ambassador from the new country of America. |
| 1:17.0 | But at this particular moment in time, the French were making him a little annoyed. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, one Frenchman in particular. |
| 1:26.7 | Georges Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Bafont, arguably the most famous natural historian in |
| 1:34.1 | the world at this time. |
| 1:36.7 | Thomas was the author of an internationally best-selling 36-volume book called The Histoire |
| 1:43.7 | N'est Rale, or Natural History, in which he gave meticulous evidence for the theory of |
| 1:51.1 | quote, degeneracy. |
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