This quote from the young Appleton, lover of Paris and who spent much of his life, is a tasty words of this book, full of anecdotes and historical references on the progressive infatuation of French civilization and its epicenter provoked among Americans from 1820 to 1900. These figures as diverse as those of Ashburne the heroic US ambassador in Paris during the Commune, and Saint-Gaudens and Mary Cassatt, artists who subsisted culture and French teaching people the ouvrag and give our nineteenth century a striking reflection. Fruit of a demanding research, the text of David McCullough brings new views on little-known areas of the general public on the importance of the Parisian medical education for American students in particular. An enjoyable and rewarding reading, I advise because the Franco-American friendship is based on a rich past that has marked the history of both countries.
