We all went to Paris
Subtitle: Americans in the City of Light
By: Stephen Longstreet
Series: Barnes & Noble rediscovers; Barnes & Noble rediscovers
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781435108882
Subjects: Americans; History; Biography; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Notes: Originally published: We all went to Paris : Americans in the City of Light, 1776-1971. New York : Macmillan, ©1972.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Early Americans. Franklin in Paris ; America and France ; A one-leg American : Gouverneur Morris ; Morris and the Terror ; Fulton's Folly on the Seine; title: Masters and misfits. Paris, 1800-1814 : what the Americans found ; An American count : Benjamin Thompson ; Salons and courtship ; Indians in the Louvre : George Catlin's show ; The butterfly : James Abbott McNeill Whistler ; The tigress and after ; The original Tiffany master; title: The middle ground. U.S. minister to a siege : Elihu Washburne ; Daughter of the robber baron ; And a few others ; The shy master : Henry James ; Hedonist at large : James Gordon Bennett ; Mr. Bennett and the owls ; American madonna painter : Mary Cassatt ; Yearners and climbers ; Society's historian : Miss Wharton ; Edith's war; title: Je n'oublierai jamais. The perfect eye :John Singer Sargent ; Mr. and Madame Butterfly in Paris ; Harry Lehr and what followed ; Student from Kansas ; La Stein ; Gertrude in glory ; Stanton Macdonald-Wright : American of the School of Paris ; The Cone sisters of Baltimore; title: Wish you were here. The sea trip of H.L. Mencken ; Barbette : Texas to Paris ; Caresse, born Mary ; Jack Johnson of Paris ; The perils of Pearl in Paris ; "Little American girl" : 1916 ; Elsie Janis : "The big show" ; Hem ; Harry's New York bar ; Isadora Duncan : dancer by the Seine ; At Natalie Barney's ; Shakespeare & company : and Miss Beach ; John Dos Passos goes to war ; Escadrille Lafayette ; Between leaves in Paris; title: En fin de compte. Scott ; Last days of Gertrude and Alice ; Americans with music : Harris, Thomson, etc. ; Les maisons de tolérance : English spoken ; Cole Porter, Parisian ; More Porter : and bricktop; title: Remember and remember. Tropic of Henry Miller ; "Saint Erotica" Miller canonized ; Richard Wright : black exile ; Paris revisited.