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.

Summary written by Michael C. Berch {[e-mail]}