The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

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Authors: David Mccullough

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Copyright © 2011 by David McCullough

 

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition May 2011

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

McCullough, David G.
The greater journey : Americans in Paris/
David McCullough. —1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
p.          cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Americans—France—Paris—History—19th century.
2. Intellectuals—France—Paris—History—19th century.
3. Artists—France—Paris—History—19th century.
4. Authors, American—France—Paris—History—19th century.
5. Physicians—France—Paris—History—19th century.
6. Paris (France)—Intellectual life—19th century.
7. Americans—France—Paris—Biography 8. Paris (France)—Biography.
9. Paris (France)—Relations—United States.
10. United States—Relations—France—Paris.   I. Title.
DC718.A44M39   2011
920.009213044361—dc22                   2010053001
ISBN 978-1-4165-7176-6
ISBN 978-1-4165-7689-1 (ebook)

 

The illustration facing the title page is
Man at the Window
by Gustave Caillebotte; on p. 1: the exterior of Notre-Dame; on p. 137: the Place Vendôme; on p. 265: the Eiffel Tower under construction. The front endpaper is the rue de Rivoli; the back endpaper is avenue de l’Opéra.
Pages 559-560 constitute an extension of the copyright page.

 

For Rosalee

 

For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers, and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.

 


AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS

 
CONTENTS
 

PART I

 

1. The Way Over

2.
Voilà Paris!

3. Morse at the Louvre

4. The Medicals

PART II

 

5. American Sensations

6. Change at Hand

7. A City Transformed

8. Bound to Succeed

PART III

 

9. Under Siege

10. Madness

11. Paris Again

12. The Farragut

13. Genius in Abundance

14.
Au Revoir, Paris!

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

SOURCE NOTES

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

INDEX

 

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