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  • Comment: I'm not sure this passes WP:NLIST, but even if it did the wording isn't appropriate for Wikipedia. "allure"? A random quote from Oscar Wilde? Then a random section on Parisian neighbourhoods? Not appropriate for an encyclopaedia. Qcne (talk) 16:40, 17 September 2023 (UTC)


The relationship between America and France began early on and has continued to this day. This list contains the names and visit dates of American Poets , Musicians, Artists, Writers, Scientists, and Politicians who spent significant time in Paris.

The primary sources for this list are: [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Earlier Americans in Paris 1774-1900

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  • John Singleton Copley. 1774
  • Benjamin Franklin 1776 – 1785 9 yrs
  • John Adams 1778
  • Samuel Adams 1778
  • John Quincy Adams. Age 10 1778 -1785
  • John Jay 1782. Treaty of Paris
  • Thomas Jefferson. 1784- 1789. 5 yrs
  • John Trumbull 1786. Guest of Jefferson
  • Charles Bulfich 1789 Architect of Wash DC 1818-1826
  • John Vanderlyn. 1796 – 1803 7 yr
  • Robert Fulton 1797 -1804
  • Robert Livington 1801
  • Benjamin West. 1802
  • Rembrandt Peale 1808 - 1810
  • Washington Irving. 1804- 1806
  • Aaron Burr. 1810- 1811
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1826 -1829
  • James Fenimore Cooper. 1826 -1833 7 yrs
  • Samuel Morse. 1829
  • Oliver Wendell Home. 1833- 1835
  • Emma Willard 1830. Troy Female Seminary. 1821
  • Charles Sumner. 1830
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 1833
  • Thomas Gold Appleton 1833 – 1840 , 1842
  • William Cullen Bryant. 1834
  • Henry Bowditch 1833- 1834
  • Herman Melville. 1839
  • George Catlin & Iowa Indians 1839 , 1845
  • Phineas T Barnum. 1845
  • Margaret Fuller 1846
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
  • James McNeil Whistler 1855
  • Charles Summer. 1857
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne 1857 -1860.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson 1863
  • Winslow Homer 1866
  • Thomas Eakins 1866 -1870
  • Augustus Saint Gaudens. 1867
  • Albert Bierstadt. 1867
  • Mark Twain 1869
  • William Merritt Chase 1872
  • Louisa May Alcott. 1873 , 1876
  • John Singer Sargent. 1874
  • Mary Cassatt 1874 -1877 1866 – 1926 60 yrs
  • Cecilia Beaux. 1880
  • Childe Hassam 1883 1886 -1889
  • Frank Benson 1883
  • Dennis Bunker 1883 -1884
  • Willard Metcalf. 1883 -1889
  • Edmund Tarbell 1884
  • John Twachtman 1885
  • Robert Henri 1888

1900 ‘s – 1940

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  • Han Schuler 1901
  • James Joyce 1902
  • Gertrude Stein 1903 – 1938 35 yrs
  • Edith Wharton 1910 – 1937
  • Teddy Roosevelt 1910
  • Mabel Dodge Luhan 1913
  • Cole Porter 1917 -1937
  • Aaron Copland 1921
  • Ernest Hemingway 1921 -1927
  • Ezra Pound. 1921 -1924
  • F.Scott Fitzgerald. 1921
  • Willa Cather. 1923
  • Langston Hughes 1923
  • William Faulkner 1925
  • Josephine Baker 1925 -1975 50 yrs
  • George Gershwin 1926
  • Dwight Eisenhower 1928
  • Henry Miller 1930
  • Louis Armstrong 1932 , 1934 -1935
  • Duke. Ellington. 1933
  • John. Steinbeck. 1946
  • James Baldwin 1948 -1970. 22 yrs

Jazz Men in Paris

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  • Louis Amstrong. 1932
  • Duke Ellington 1933.
  • Coleman Hawkins 1934
  • Glen Miller
  • Miles Davis 1949
  • Charlie Parker. 1949
  • Dizzy Gillespie. 1953
  • Kenny Clark 1948 , 1949 -1951.

1950’s. Beat Generation

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Poets

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  • Allen Ginsberg. 1957.
  • Williams Burroughs 1957.
  • Gregory Corso 1957. “Bomb “
  • Peter Orlousky 1957
  • Jack. Kerouac. 1965

Abstract. Impressionist Artist

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  • Andy Warhol. 1965
  • Mark Rothko. 1965
  • William de Koenig. 1968

References

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  1. ^ We All Went to Paris Americans in the City of Lights 1776 – 1971,By Stephen Longstreet isbn 0760762082
  2. ^ Americans in Paris Literary Anthology by Adam Gopnik isbn 1931082561
  3. ^ Greater Journey. By David McCullough. Asin B01J045960
  4. ^ Americans in Paris. By Charles Glass. 1940- 1944.Isbn 0143118668
  5. ^ Americans in Paris 1860 – 1900 by Erica E Hirshler Isbn 1857093011
  6. ^ Americans in Paris Artist Working in Postwar France 1946 -1962 Isbn -10 3777436372