Author collects a range of interesting individuals who thread their way through the book. The cohesion is the city itself, with it's art, culture, revolutions, scandals, wars, etc.
Many interesting folk inhabit the pages of this book including painter (and later inventor) Samuel Morse, physicians Oliver Wendell Holmes and Elzabeth Blackwell, authors James Fenimore Cooper and Henry James.
Favorite people include Charles Sumner who suffered a grave injury in the states fighting for abolition, but found healing in Paris. Elihu Washburn, American diplomat to Paris during the German siege and the takeover of the Communards, and scuptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris is an engaging, very informative, and quite touching book.
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