Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Synopsis
One of the obsessive speculations in American
history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became
president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his
15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to
France (as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI), following
the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French,
his relationship with his daughters and slaves from home (especially
Sally), against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution.
