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008			110708s2011 nyu b 001 0deng
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020			_a9781416571766
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050	0	0	_aDC718.A44 _bM39 2011
082	0	0	_a920 MCC
100	1		_aMcCullough, David G.
245	1	4	_aThe greater journey _b: Americans in Paris, 1830-1900 _c/ David McCullough
250			_a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, 2011.
300			_a558 p. [48] p. of plates _b: ill. (some col.) _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index.
520			_aTravelers before the telephone era loved to write letters and journals, and McCullough has turned this avalanche of material into an entertaining chronicle of several dozen 19th-century Americans who went to Paris, an immense, supremely civilized city flowing with ideas, the arts, and elegance, where no one spit tobacco juice or defaced public property. They discovered beautiful clothing, delicious food, the art of dining ("The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite," wrote John Sanderson). Paris had not only pleasures but professional attractions as well. Artists such as Samuel F.B. Morse, Whistler, Sargent, and Cassatt came to train. At a time when American medical education was fairly primitive, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and other prospective physicians studied at the Sorbonne's vast hospitals and lecture halls-with tuition free to foreigners. Authors from Cooper to Stowe, Twain, and James sometimes took up residence. McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.
650		0	_aAmericans _z--France _z--Paris _x--History _y--19th century
650		0	_aIntellectuals _x--Biography
650		4	_aArtists _v--Biography
650		0	_aAuthors, American _v--Biography
650		0	_aPhysicians _x--Biography
651		0	_aParis (France)
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