His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
March 31, 1995
Released
Jefferson in Paris
2h 19min
$14,000,000
$2,474,000
English
Merchant Ivory ProductionsTouchstone PicturesFranco London FilmsGaumont