We all went to Paris

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An informal history of Americans who visited Paris from 1776-1971. From letters, newspapers, journals of the time, the author tried to probe how Parisians lived at those special times when Americans were there, and how they reacted to them and how the Americans acted and reacted to Paris. Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Fulton, Count Rumford West Point, Countess Lavoisier, George Catlin, James Abbott, McNeill Whistler, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Elihu Washburne, Jay Gould, Cornte Boniface de Castellance, Henry James, James Gordon Bennett, Mary Cassatt, Kate Moore, Edith Wharton, John Singer Sargent, George Morgan, Harry Lehr, Gertrude Stein, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Dr. Claribel Cone and Eta Cone, H.L. Mencken, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, Jack Johnson, Pearl White, Jean Cocteau, Elise Janis, Ernst Hemmingway, Harry McElhone, Isadora Duncan, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, George Gershwin, W.W. Windstaff, Cole Porter, Henry Miller, Richard Wright.