Thomas Jefferson: the Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: the Art of Power
“—THOMAS JEFFERSON to Archibald Cary JEFFERSON FOUND THE SHOPPING in France wonderful. He bought silver and china and wine. Intrigued by a new innovation—“phosphoretic” matches—he purchased three dozen to send to friends in America. There were opera tickets and Italian comedy tickets and tickets to the occasional concert spirituel, musical performances in the Salle des Machines of the Palais des Tuileries. (Jefferson’s first included a song of Handel’s.) He acquired more than sixty paintings in ...his five years in Paris, many of them portraits or images of religious subjects or scenes. Particular purchases: a Prodigal Son, a Democritus and Heraclitus, a St. Peter Weeping, a Magdalen Penitent, and a Salome Bearing the Head of St. John.
Twice he attended masquerade balls at the Opéra—parties that began at eleven p.m. and ran until six in the morning. (Once he and William S. Smith, John Adams’s son-in-law, were the targets of a forward baroness: “When Mr.MoreLess
Twice he attended masquerade balls at the Opéra—parties that began at eleven p.m. and ran until six in the morning. (Once he and William S. Smith, John Adams’s son-in-law, were the targets of a forward baroness: “When Mr.MoreLess
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