In the wake of his wife's death, Thomas Jefferson accepts the job of U.S. ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, but he finds it hard to adapt to life in a country where the aristocracy rules over a more and more angry peasantry. In Paris, he becomes infatuated with Maria Cosway, a well-educated artist. When his daughter and her pretty slave, Sally Hemings, come to visit from Virginia, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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In the wake of his wife's death, Thomas Jefferson accepts the job of U.S. ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, but he finds it hard to adapt to life in a country where the aristocracy rules over a more and more angry peasantry. In Paris, he becomes infatuated with Maria Cosway, a well-educated artist. When his daughter and her pretty slave, Sally Hemings, come to visit from Virginia, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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