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| Languages: | English, French |
| Budget: | USD 14,000,000 |
| Plot: | 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. |
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"VIOLIN SONATA La Follia, OPUS 5, No. 12" Music by Arcangelo Corelli Performed by Hiro Kurosaki (violin), Emmanuel Balssa (cello) and William Christie (clavecin) (uncredited) "SONATA OPUS 3, No. $ FOR HARPSICHORD, TWO VIOLINS & CELLO, PIÈCE DE CLAVECIN La Lugeac" Music by Claude Balbastre Performed by Simon Heyerick (violin), Bernadette Charbonnier (violin) and David Bahanovich (cello) "QUARTET OPUS 7, NO. 1 FOR HARPSICHORD, TWO VIOLINS & CELLO" Music by Johann Schobert Performed by Simon Heyerick (violin), Bernadette Charbonnier (violin), Jory Vinikour and David Bahanovich (cello) "COURANTE IN C. MINOR FOR HARPSICHORD" Music by Jacques Duphly Performed by Jory Vinikour "Mormora, ITALIAN SONGS FOR VOICE & HARP" Written by Maria Cosway Performed by Mary Nichols (alto) and Jan Walters (harp) "Leçons de Ténèbres: Trisous est Anima: In Hoc Festo" Music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier Performed by Sophie Daneman and Sandrine Piau (sopranos) with Jory Vinikour (organ) "Dardanus (excerpts)" Music by Antonio Sacchini Performed by Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor) with Les Arts Florissants Conducted by William Christie "CONCERTO GROSSO OPUS 7, NO. 6 La Follia, in d. MINOR" Music by Francesco Geminiani Perfermed by Les Arts Florissants |
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DATE: Thomas buys items from Parisian merchants who use the metric system of measure over a decade before the adoption of metric units in France. Fact errors: In the movie, while Sally Hemmings is in Paris, she says she is pregnant. Her first child (Thomas) was actually born a year after they returned to America. |
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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! Thomas Jefferson: I kept having a debate between my head and my heart. Maria Cosway: Which in your case, the head always wins. Thomas Jefferson: Not this time. My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart. Maria Cosway: Oh-dear-God. Thomas Jefferson: It kept telling me I love the lady and will continue to love her forever. If she were on one side of the globe and I on the other, I would pierce through the whole mass of the world to reach her. Thomas Jefferson: Independence is not a toy for children to play with, but the privilege of a fully matured mind. |
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