The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
demolition and reconstruction of, 207–8
founding of, 104–5
nuns of, 111
rounds conducted in, 111–12
surgeons of, 112–15
wards of, 110–11
Hôtel du Louvre, 218, 232, 248
Hôtel d’York, 104
Hôtel Meurice, 57
Hôtel Windsor, 180
House of Representatives, U.S., 7, 82, 129, 149, 152–53, 275, 277–78
Appropriations Committee of, 277
Commerce Committee of, 152–53, 277
House of Representatives (Morse), 63, 65, 96, 100
House of Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 215
Houssaye, Henry, 395
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 227–28
Howells, John, 428
Howells, William Dean, 333, 428, 433, 448
Hugo, Victor, 10, 39–40, 46–47, 124, 174, 195, 201, 205, 207, 263
Hulgren, Albertina, see Clark, Davida Humboldt, Alexander von, 93, 155, 181
Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (Notre-Dame de Paris) (Hugo), 39–40, 46, 207
Hunt, Richard Morris, 183, 190–91, 405, 442
Hunt, William Morris, 191, 220, 342, 442
Île de la Cité, 25, 85, 87, 89, 104, 279
bridges of, 40–41
redesign and transformation of, 206–7, 208
Immaculate Conception (Murillo), 332
Imperial Library, 228
Impressionists, 342, 351–52
American art influenced by, 411–12
Cassatt and, 342, 351–52, 389, 394
first New York show of, 419
Fourth Exhibition of, 387–88
Incoronata, L’ (Correggio), 339
Independence Hall (Philadelphia), 22, 64
Indian Gallery, 172
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 220
Innocents Abroad (Twain), 248
Sargent and, 389
Institut de France, 155, 443
Interieur, Ministre de l’, 156
Interior of a Cotton Broker’s Office at New Orleans, The (Degas), 352
Invalides, 26
Ireland, 12, 149
emigration from, 210–11, 240
Irving, Henry, 420
Irving, Washington, 12–13, 199
Isère, 405
Italy, 35, 58, 62, 149, 186, 376
Jackson, Andrew, 82–83, 94, 129, 144, 180
Healy’s portrait of, 146–47
Jackson, Charles, 152
Jackson, James, Jr., 6, 15, 30, 51, 53, 69, 111, 114, 120, 124, 134, 136, 152
cholera epidemic withstood by, 86–87, 89
death of, 128–29
Holmes and, 119
as medical student, 107–8, 109, 110, 117–18, 123, 125–26
Jackson, James, Sr., 6, 69, 125–26, 128–29, 135
Jackson, Mrs. (daughter-in-law), 147
Jaleo, El (Sargent), 397, 398, 410
exuberance and drama of, 395
James, Alice, 332
James, Henry, 219, 228, 250, 334, 335, 337, 350, 396, 397, 401, 409, 428
Paris sojourn of, 331–33
James, William, 219, 332, 333, 348
Jardin des Plantes, 104, 117, 121, 263
Jarvis, John Wesley, 67
Jay, John, 104
Jefferson, Thomas, 3, 10–11, 39, 64, 65, 444
influence of Hôtel de Salm on, 44
as minister to France, 39, 180, 329
Paris residence of, 46
Sully’s portrait of, 63
“John Brown’s Body,” 243, 373
Johns Hopkins Medical School, 132
Johnson, Samuel, 16
Johnston, W. E., 291, 294, 298, 300
Jones, George Frederick, 257
Jouffroy, François, 254–56
Journal de Paris, 158
Journal des Débats, 173
Joyce, Levin, 117
Juárez, Benito, 251
Julian, Rodolphe, 411
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 301
July Revolution of 1830, 11, 58
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 224
Karr, Alphonse, 139
Katherine Cassatt Reading to Her Grandchildren (Cassatt), 393
Kearsarge, USS, 245
Keats, John, 229
Kennebec Journal, 276
Kirk, Edward, 153–54, 155, 157
Klumpke, Anna, 411
Krupp, 248, 259
Labouchère, Henry, 282, 288
Labrouste, Henri, 408
La Chapelle, Marie-Louise, 119
Lady at the Tea Table (Cassatt), 419
Lady Liberty, see Statue of Liberty
Lady with the Rose (Sargent), 392, 395
Laënnec, René, 124
La Farge, John, 366, 380, 440, 442
Lafayette, Marquis de, 4, 8, 10–11, 29, 61, 92, 120, 148, 234, 377
Cooper and, 71–72
death of, 129
at 1832 Fourth of July celebration, 94–95
Morse’s portrait of, 82–83
Morse’s toast to, 94–95
Willard and, 29, 58
La Fontaine, Jean de, 10
Lalouette’s, 222
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 188, 227
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 447–48
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 4, 71, 174
French edition of, 72
Latin Quarter, 29, 54, 116, 119, 121, 221, 249, 255
Le Brethon, Jules, 242–43
Lebreton, Adélaïde-Charlotte, 261
Lecomte, Claude, 307
Lee, Custis, 336
Lee, Robert E., 336
Lee, Vernon, 390–93, 397, 398, 399, 420
Left Bank, 29, 104, 144, 155, 247, 349, 365, 426, 435
Prussian bombardment of, 298–99
Lefuel, Hector-Martin, 191
Legion of Honor, 321
Le Havre, France, 20–21, 98
L’Enfant, Pierre-Charles, 39
Le Nôtre, André, 43
Leonardo da Vinci, 47, 63, 90
Leroi, Paul, 382
Les Halles, 208
Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix), 65
Liberty Lighting the World (Bartholdi), see Statue of Liberty
Lincoln, Abraham, 243, 244, 253, 273, 373
Healy’s portrait of, 234–35, 336
Saint-Gaudens’s portraits of, 430, 435
Lionel Lincoln (Cooper), 71
Lisfranc, Jacques, 112–13, 114, 132
Lister, Joseph, 113
Liszt, Franz, 10, 165
Little Bighorn, Battle of, 350
Little Wolf, 168–69, 171, 174–75
Locust Grove, 231–32
Lointier, 94
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 7, 33–34, 36, 197, 198–99, 218, 224, 227, 228, 230, 235, 329, 336, 424
Longsword, William, 23–24
Lorrain, Claude, 90
Lorraine, 303
Louis, Pierre-Charles-Alexandre, 105–6, 118, 130, 134–36, 192, 424
American medical students and, 123–26, 128, 132–33
Louis XVI, King of France, 41
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, see Napoleon III, Emperor of France
Louis-Philippe, King of France, 11, 43, 44, 72, 94, 176, 181, 182, 185, 203, 207, 209, 260, 424
abdication of, 183–84
in America, 170
at Catlin’s exhibition, 170–72
death of, 184
Healy’s portrait of, 143–44, 145
Tom Thumb’s audience with, 162–63
unpopularity of, 119, 120–21, 179
Louvre, 27, 29, 37, 80, 148, 155, 168, 208, 219, 222, 226, 306, 332, 412, 415, 450
annual Salon at, 65
Catlin’s exhibit in, 176
Empress Eugénie’s escape through, 260–61
Grande Galerie of, 41, 66, 91, 95, 216, 261
Healy’s visits to, 140–41, 145
history of, 41
Holmes’s farewell visit to, 424
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Morse’s painting of, see Gallery of the Louvre
Paris Commune and, 316, 321, 323, 326–27
Salle des Sept-Cheminées of, 261
Salon Carré of, 64–65, 66, 96–97, 216, 261
and siege of Paris, 287
Stowe’s visits to, 215–17
Sumner’s first visits to, 42, 47
Venus de Milo of, 326–27
Willard’s visit to, 42–43, 58
Low, Will, 335, 343–44, 348–50, 365, 372, 415, 438, 442
“Lutèce,” in Paris origins, 25
Luxembourg Gardens, 89, 121, 235, 296, 298, 323, 365, 367, 373, 389, 412, 435, 452
Luxembourg Museum, 412, 449
Luxembourg Palace, 45
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (Cassatt), 393
Lydia Seated in the Garden with a Dog in Her Lap (Cassatt), 393
Lynch, William, 229
Lyons, Richard B. P., 269
Lytton, Lord, 416
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 420
McKean, James, 309, 313–14, 315
McKim, Charles, 366–67, 368, 369, 431, 443, 454
McLean Hospital, 105
MacMahon, Patrice de, 309, 320–21, 324, 356
MacMonnies, Frederick, 426, 434
Madame Cortier (Cassatt), 341
Madame X (Sargent), 399–404, 419–20
controversial reactions to, 402–4
painting of, 400–401
in Paris Salon of 1884, 401–2
preliminary studies for, 400
reviews of, 403–4
sale of, 404
Sargent’s supposed obsession with subject of, 399–400
stagy pose of, 400–401
Madison, James, 444
Madison Square Park, 378, 383
Mandolin Player, A (Cassatt), 337
Manet, Édouard, 245, 342, 389, 399, 419
Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), 229
Marie-Amélie, Queen of France, 43, 170, 183, 260
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 41
Marriage at Cana, The (Veronese), 91, 95
Mars, Mademoiselle (Anne Françoise Boutet), 51–52
“Marseillaise,” 11, 181, 245, 254, 257, 258
Marx, Karl, 187
Mason, John Y., 232
Massachusetts General Hospital, 6, 105, 128, 133, 451
Massachusetts Medical Society, 136
Maternité, La, 192–94
Maupassant, Guy de, 407
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 244, 251
May, Charles, 270, 281–82
Mazas Prison, 314, 318, 320–21
Medici, Catherine de, 41, 43
Medusa, 216
Meissonier, Ernest, 342, 343, 407
Melbourne, Lord, 183
Melville, Herman, 218
Memorial (Irving), 199
Mendelssohn, Felix, 164
Meninas, Las (Velázquez), 389, 396
Messenger, 28
Metcalf, Willard, 411–12
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 404
metro system, 446
Mexican War, 223
Mexico, 244
Michel, Émile, 381–82
Michelangelo, 373, 445
Middle Ages, 444–45
Millet, Jean-François, 191
Minneapolis Tribune, 275
Mobile Bay, Battle of, 360
Mobile Guard, 300
Molière, 10, 51, 52, 135
Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 63, 90–91
Monet, Claude, 342, 389, 410, 419
Monroe, James, 7, 81
Monroe Doctrine, 244
Monticello, 44
Montmartre, 281, 305, 306–7, 320
view of Paris from, 38–39
Mont Saint-Michel, 445
Moore, Frank, 271, 328
Moore, Thomas, 245
Morisot, Berthe, 352, 355, 419
Morocco, 173, 389
Morse, Elizabeth, 77
Morse, Finley, 82
Morse, Jedidiah, 75–77, 81–82, 84, 96
Morse, Lucretia Pickering, 8, 81–82, 149
death of, 83
Morse, Richard, 77, 84
Morse, Samuel F. B., 4, 139, 166, 197, 248, 406
ambition of, 80
anti-Catholicism of, 97–98, 149–50
art background of, 7–9
art career of, 80–84
art education of, 62, 77–79
as art professor, 149–50
banquet in honor of, 231–33
“Brutus” as pen name of, 150
cholera epidemic and, 88, 90
Cooper contrasted with, 75–76, 78
on Cooper’s Americanism, 92–93
Cooper’s friendship with, 61–62, 63, 74–75, 82, 91
family background of, 75–78
first major commission of, 81
inventions as financial object of, 81
in Italy trip, 62, 64
in July 4, 1832, celebration, 94–95
Lafayette’s portrait by, 82–83
Lafayette toasted by, 94–95
London sojourn of, 78–80
Louvre visits of, 58, 61
marriages of, 81, 232
as mayoral candidate, 150
National Academy of Art founded by, 84
Nativist movement and, 149–50
painting abandoned by, 151
Paris residence of, 74–75
photographic interest of, 157–59
as portraitist, 80–84
as portrait photographer, 159
religion and, 76–77
self-portraits of, 68
success and recognition of, 231–32
Sue Cooper and, 74, 97
telegraph of, see telegraph West’s praise of, 79
Willis’s observation of, 84–85
at Yale, 76–77, 80
see also Gallery of the Louvre
Morse, Sarah Griswold, 232
Morse, Sidney, 77, 149, 155
Morse, Susan, 148–50, 153
Morton, W. T. G., 133
Moulton, Charles, 253, 304, 307, 315–16
Moulton, Lillie Greenough, 252–53, 304, 307, 315–16, 327
Rigault’s interview with, 310–11
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 49, 229, 256
Muette de Portici, La (Auber), 257
Murger, Henri, 221