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Sep 29, 2023 · On 5 July 1784 Jefferson left Boston with his 11-year-old daughter Patsy and his personal slave and valet, James Hemings. A month later the trio pulled into port at Le Havre and entered Paris on 3 August. The City of Lights was unlike anything Jefferson had experienced up to that point.
Jefferson’s life in Paris and his travels in France heavily influenced his attitudes toward the arts, science, technology, social customs, dining, wine and so much more. The reported 86 crates of fine art, housewares, cooking and dining supplies, clocks, literature, and scientific objects were delivered to his home in Monticello, which ...
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Jefferson especially enjoyed visiting the book stores of Paris: "[W]hile residing in Paris I devoted every afternoon I was disengaged, for a summer or two, in examining all the principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hands, and putting by every thing which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare & valuable in every ...
Dec 16, 2014 · Jefferson (1743–1826) lived in Paris for five years, from 1784 to 1789. His wife had died in 1782; sailing from Boston to Le Havre, he made the journey with his 11-year-old daughter Martha and his 19-year-old slave James Hemings. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, fellow trade ministers, welcomed Jefferson in the fall of 1784.
Nov 30, 2016 · Written by Richard Guy Wilson, Commonweath Professor’s Chair in Architectural History, University of Virginia The years 1784-1789 Thomas Jefferson spent in Paris and in Europe. They proved to be extremely important in the development of his appreciation of architecture, landscape and garden design, painting and sculpture, decorative and other arts. He loved the […]
As American Minister to France, 1784-1789, Jefferson was inspired by the neo-classical architectural style then in vogue in Paris, particularly the Hôtel de Salm, the Hôtel de Langeac, and the Maison Carrée. Hôtel de Langeac Jefferson's two-story, 24 room Paris townhouse, the Hôtel de Langeac, inspired his reimagining and remodeling of ...
Apr 7, 1995 · The Jefferson in this movie is such a remote figure that you wonder, by the movie's end, if he actually knew he was having sex at the time. Perhaps his mind was preoccupied with architecture or philosophy. The movie takes place in the mid-1780s, when Jefferson ( Nick Nolte ), author of the Declaration of Independence, replaced Benjamin Franklin ...
