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It seems as though everyone who was anyone in the 1800s made the trek to paris. He finds americans were a constant paris presence from the 1830s on. Take a few steps beyond lafayette in the history books and americans tend to gloss over the role france played in our surge from provincial. Reading guide for the greater journey by david mccullough. Guy endore but in the torrid atmosphere of paris, a nodding acquaintance ripens quickly to intimacy. The backtoback visits were just two of a first wave of nineteenthcentury american curiosities or exoticsles sensations americaines that david mccullough describes in his book, the greater journey. In a departure from mcculloughs most recent works, founding fathers like benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson, who spent time in paris, are not covered.
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