The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (7 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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Jonathan Mason Warren.
Student ticket to the hospital.
Dr. Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis.
Dr. Guillaume Dupuytren.
The Amphithéâtre d’Anatomie (the dissecting room) on the rue d’Orléans.
The main entrance to the Hôtel Dieu, the oldest and largest hospital in Paris.
The church of the Sorbonne, the oldest part of the university.
Charles Sumner
by Eastman Johnson.
Sumner’s Paris journal entry for Saturday, January 20, 1838, in which, after observing how “well-received” black students are at the Sorbonne, he writes, “It must be then, that the distance between free blacks and the whites among us [at home] is derived from education, and does not exist in the nature of things.”
Thomas Gold Appleton
by Robert Scott Lauder. It was Appleton who said, “Good Americans when they die go to Paris,” the line made famous when quoted by his friend Oliver Wendell Holmes. Of all the Americans who came to Paris in his time, few so enjoyed the city as did Appleton — or returned so often.
The luxurious garden and arcades of the Palais Royal. Oliver Wendell Holmes liked to say that the Palais Royal was to Paris what Paris was to Europe.
Right: The Trois Frères Provençaux, one of the several elegant restaurants at the Palais Royal and a great favorite of the Americans.
Marie Taglioni, considered the greatest dancer in the world and the sensation of Paris. “Have you seen Taglioni?” was often the first question a foreign visitor was asked.
