Salut! : France meets Philadelphia : the French presence in Philadelphia's history, culture, and art / Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Miller, Lynn H., author.
• Dolan, Therese, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• French Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
• Art--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
• Art.
• History.
• French Americans.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Civilization--French influence.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Intellectual life--History.
• Intellectual life.
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 398 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

• Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2020]
• ©2021.

Summary:

"Provides a thorough account of the impact on Philadelphia and its surrounding area of the French people and the Francophone community over the course of the city's more than 300-year history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• How the French Have Helped Shape Philadelphia
• The French in Colonial Pennsylvania
• The Crucible: France and Revolutionary Philadelphia
• A New Nation Is Born: French Art in Philadelphia
• Federal Philadelphia in the French Revolution
• Détente in Philadelphia and for the Nation
• The Appeal of French Art for Early 19th-Century Philadelphia
• All Manner of French Matters in 19th-Century Philadelphia
• Philadelphia, Paris, and Thomas Eakins
• From the Schuylkill to the Seine: Mary Cassatt and Henry Ossawa Tanner
• Philadelphia's Champs Elysées and Other French Inspirations
• Moving into Modernism: Pennsylvania Impressionism and Early 20th-Century Painting
• Barnes and Mastbaum Enrich the Parkway, and Philadelphia's French Outdoor Art
• Three Centuries of French Cuisine, Plus Recent Gallic Contributions.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Athenaeum literary award ; 2020

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copies 1-2: Gift of the publisher; c. 3 Gemmill fund bookplate.

ISBN:

• 9781439917121
• 1439917124

OCLC:

1141974193