The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (39 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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The Raft of the Medusa
by Théodore Géricault, showing the victims of an 1816 disaster at sea.
The laying of the Atlantic Cable in 1858 changed transatlantic communication forever.
Second Empire opulence on display at the Grand Hôtel.
As the German army marched on Paris, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an American student of sculpture, decided he must leave.
Mary Putnam chose to stay, determined to pursue her medical studies no matter what.
With Paris under siege, Léon Gambetta makes his dramatic escape by balloon. As few people knew, the second balloon (right) carried two Americans, Charles May and William Reynolds.
A Soup Kitchen During the Siege of Paris
by Henri Pille.
Rat Seller During the Siege of Paris
by Narcisse Chaillou.
American minister to France Elihu B. Washburne.
A December 25, 1870, excerpt from the diary Washburne kept every day through the entire siege.
Paris aflame the night of May 23–24, 1871.
Communard corpses.
Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Paris
by Jean-Louis-Victor Viger du Vigneau. Archbishop Darboy was arrested, imprisoned, and secretly executed on orders from the Communard Chief of Police Raoul Rigault.
