A virtual walk through Paris, France, to places that are related to America’s Revolutionary War history … a four-session “stroll” and history lesson. See where Benjamin Franklin lived during his eight years in Paris negotiating French support for America’s War of Independence … and also view the grand building where 4,000 Parisians stood to mourn Franklin’s death years later. Discover the bookshops and bouquinistes along the Seine where Thomas Jefferson bought books that became the first volumes of our Library of Congress. We see the handsome statue of George Washington astride his horse, given as a thank-you to France by the women of the young United States, in a busy Parisian roundabout. Learn where it is, and so much more.
When in Paris, I lead guided walks to these locations and present the same Powerpoint program. You and your group can enjoy the same sort of discussions as our American and French friends in Paris.
“I learned so much about our country’s history,” said a former student. “I don’t remember studying any of these interesting facts in school. My next trip to Paris, I’ll take the map we got in class and stop by a few locations that I learned about. The whole course was really enlightening.”
More than twenty-three locations around that city are “visited,” places where treaties were signed, statues erected, parks created, streets named, or plaques put on buildings – all relating to French involvement and support for the American Revolution.