An informal history of Americans who visited Paris from 1776-1971. From letters, newspapers, journals of the time, the author tried to probe how Parisians lived at those special times when Americans were there, and how they reacted to them and how the Americans acted and reacted to Paris. Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Fulton, Count Rumford West Point, Countess Lavoisier, George Catlin, James Abbott, McNeill Whistler, Louis Comfort Tiffany,...