We all went to Paris : Americans in the City of Light /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Barnes & Noble,
2009.
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| Series: | Barnes & Noble rediscovers.
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Table of Contents:
- Early Americans. Franklin in Paris ; America and France ; A one-leg American : Gouverneur Morris ; Morris and the Terror ; Fulton's Folly on the Seine
- Masters and misfits. Paris, 1800-1814 : what the Americans found ; An American count : Benjamin Thompson ; Salons and courtship ; Indians in the Louvre : George Catlin's show ; The butterfly : James Abbott McNeill Whistler ; The tigress and after ; The original Tiffany master
- The middle ground. U.S. minister to a siege : Elihu Washburne ; Daughter of the robber baron ; And a few others ; The shy master : Henry James ; Hedonist at large : James Gordon Bennett ; Mr. Bennett and the owls ; American madonna painter : Mary Cassatt ; Yearners and climbers ; Society's historian : Miss Wharton ; Edith's war
- Je n'oublierai jamais. The perfect eye :John Singer Sargent ; Mr. and Madame Butterfly in Paris ; Harry Lehr and what followed ; Student from Kansas ; La Stein ; Gertrude in glory ; Stanton Macdonald-Wright : American of the School of Paris ; The Cone sisters of Baltimore
- Wish you were here. The sea trip of H.L. Mencken ; Barbette : Texas to Paris ; Caresse, born Mary ; Jack Johnson of Paris ; The perils of Pearl in Paris ; "Little American girl" : 1916 ; Elsie Janis : "The big show" ; Hem ; Harry's New York bar ; Isadora Duncan : dancer by the Seine ; At Natalie Barney's ; Shakespeare & company : and Miss Beach ; John Dos Passos goes to war ; Escadrille Lafayette ; Between leaves in Paris
- En fin de compte. Scott ; Last days of Gertrude and Alice ; Americans with music : Harris, Thomson, etc. ; Les maisons de tolérance : English spoken ; Cole Porter, Parisian ; More Porter : and bricktop
- Remember and remember. Tropic of Henry Miller ; "Saint Erotica" Miller canonized ; Richard Wright : black exile ; Paris revisited.