A powerful man torn between his love for one woman and his secret desire for another.
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Director: James Ivory
Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Producer: Ismail Merchant
Director of Photography: Pierre Lhomme
Thomas Jefferson
Maria Cosway
Sally Hemings
Patsy Jefferson
D'Hancarville
Richard Cosway
James Hemings
Madison Hemings
Jefferson in Paris (1995) ORIGINAL TRAILER