Paris

Summary from Library of Congress: Franklin was widely popular in France, where he had lived from 1776 to 1785 as the chief US diplomatic representative. After hearing of his death on April 17, 1790, the French National Assembly issued a decree that its members would observe three days of mourning.…

The treaty, sent to Congress by the American negotiators, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, formally ended the Revolutionary War. They emerged from the peace process with one of the most advantageous treaties ever negotiated for the United States. Two crucial provisions of the treaty…

<p><span class="deck">An eyewitness recreates a wonderful, wacky day in August, 1944, when Hemingway, a handful of other Americans, and a s</span>eñorita <span class="deck">named Elena helped rekindle the City of Light. Champagne ran in rivers, and the squeals inside the tanks were not from grit in the bogie wheels.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Eighteenth-century equivalents of “Yankee go home!” greeted the Adams family when, in 1785, they arrived in London. Nevertheless, there were certain delightful compensations—especially for an eligible young lady</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> OF BALLOONS, THE FIRST AIR-MAIL LETTERS, AND THE EVER-ENTERPRISING FRANKLIN FAMILY</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> HOW TWO FAMOUS FIGURES OF THE TWENTIES GREW UP, MET, AND FELL IN LOVE</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I … sigh in the midst of cheerful company”</span> </span></p>

<p>But was Louis Moreau Gottschalk America’s first musical genius or simply the purveyor of sentimental claptrap?</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The work of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald virtually defined what it meant to be American in the first half of this century</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it -- from a crack team of French and American architects and engineers.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">His works ranged from intimate cameos to heroic public monuments. America has produced no greater sculptor.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Remember the excitement of the 1924 Olympics in <em><span class="typestyle"> Chariots of Fire</span></em>? That was nothing compared with what the U.S. rugby team did to the French at those games. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the years between the dedication of the Statue of Liberty and the First World War, the Divine Sarah was, for hundreds of thousands of Americans, the single most compelling embodiment of the French republic.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In an age when the best black artists were lucky to exhibit their work at state fairs, Henry Ossawa Tanner was accepted by the most selective jury in France.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY HAS NOT BEEN TIME ENOUGH TO EFFACE THE REMNANTS OF VIOLENCE ALONG A 400-MILE FRONT.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The ambassador from an infant republic spent five enchanted years in the French capital at a time when monarchy was giving way to revolution. Walking the city streets today, you can still feel the extravagant spirit of the city and the era he knew.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When Henry Adams sought the medieval world in an automobile, this stuffiest of prophets became the first American to sing of the liberating force later celebrated by Jack Kerouac and the Beach Boys.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">World War I made the city the financial capital of the world. Then, after World War II, a very few audacious painters and passionate critics made it the cultural capital, as well. Here is how they seized the torch from Europe.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">At a time when driving from Manhattan to Yonkers was a supreme challenge, a half-dozen cars pointed their radiators west and set out from Times Square for Paris.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> AFTER TRYING TO PRODUCE DRINKABLE WINE</lead_in> for 300 years, we finally got the hang of it ... so effectively that, in the last quarter-century, our results have raised the quality of winemaking all over the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The trouble with having (and being) a hero</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">American jazz musicians once enjoyed a freedom and respect in France’s capital that they could never win at home. Landmarks of that era still abound.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Revolution’s Second Toughest Job</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A humble sport in a stylish capital</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The 70-year-old statesman lived the high life in Paris and pulled off a diplomatic miracle.</span></p>

<p>American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens finds inspiration in France to create one of America’s most iconic sculptures, a memorial to the Civil War hero Admiral David Farragut.</p>

<p>Historian S. L. A. Marshall tells how he and “Papa” Hemingway liberated Paris.</p>

<p>Seventy-five years ago, Ernest Hemingway and a historian were among the first Americans to enter Paris as guns were still firing.</p>