
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.
Michael LonsdaleLouis XVI
Vincent CasselCamille Desmoulins
James Earl JonesMadison Hemings
Nigel WhitmeyJohn Trumbull
Gwyneth PaltrowPatsy JeffersonGwyneth Paltrow's real life mother, Blythe Danner, played Martha Jefferson in 1776 (1972).
Maria Cosway:
That's how it is here. People play at love. It's not serious. It is different in Italy. There, we kill for it!
Anachronisms: Thomas buys items from Parisian merchants who use the metric system of measure over a decade before the adoption of metric units in France.
Music by Arcangelo Corelli
Performed by Hiro Kurosaki (violin), Emmanuel Balssa (cello) and William Christie (clavecin) (uncredited)
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