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Salut! - France Meets Philadelphia (Hardcover)
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Salut! - France Meets Philadelphia (Hardcover)
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One highly visible example of French influence on the city of
Philadelphia is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, modeled on the
Champs-Élysées. In Salut!, Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan trace
the fruitful, three-centuries-long relationship between the City of
Brotherly Love and France. This detailed volume illustrates the
effect of Huguenots settling in Philadelphia and 18-year-old
William Penn visiting Paris, all the way up through more recent
cultural offerings that have helped make the city the distinctive
urban center it is today. Salut! provides a magnifique
history of Philadelphia seen through a particular cultural lens.
The authors chronicle the French influence during colonial and
revolutionary times. They highlight the contributions of
nineteenth-century French philanthropists, such as Stephen Girard
and the Dupont family. And they showcase the city’s vibrant
visual arts community featuring works from the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, the Rodin Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and the Joan of
Arc sculpture, as well as studies of artists Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. There is also a profile of
renowned Le Bec-Fin chef Georges Perrier, who made Philadelphia a
renowned culinary destination in the twentieth century. With lavish
illustrations and enthusiastic text, Salut!celebrates a potpourri
of all things French in the Philadelphia region.
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