Jefferson in Paris

1995

English

5.7

♡ 8

33%

James Ivory Director

Vincent Cassel as Camille Desmoulins

Éric Génovèse as Liberal Aristocrat

Nancy Marchand as Madame Abbesse

Todd Boyce as William Short

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.