Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series

"Unabridged."--Title page verso

The way over -- Voilà Paris! -- Morse at the Louvre -- The medicals -- American sensations -- Change at hand -- A city transformed -- Bound to succeed -- Under siege -- Madness -- Paris again -- The Farragut -- Genius in abundance -- Au revoir, Paris!

Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there; 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

Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011