AMERICANS IN FRANCE

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Kearny Jr., Philip
Philip Kearny Jr. (1815-1862) was General Kearny’s nephew. He was an illustrious military officer, notable for his leadership in the Mexican American War and in the American Civil War. He was killed in action in the 1862 Battle of Chantilly in Virginia. Kearny Jr. studied cavalry tactics in France at Saumur in 1839, and fought with the Chasseurs d’Afrique in Algeria, where he was nicknamed “Kearny le magnifique.” He returned to the United States in 1840, and was back in France in 1859, this time fighting the Austrians in Italy, then with Napoleon III’s Imperial Guard at the Battle of Solferino. He was awarded the French Légion d’honneur, becoming the first U.S. citizen to receive this honor for military service. 

De Peyster, John Watts. Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny, Major-General United States Volunteers. Elizabeth, New Jersey: Palmer & Co., 1869.

Compilations/Anthologies

Gopnik, Adam (ed.). Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication Library of America, 2004.

This book includes the following names:
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Gouvernor Morris
Thomas Paine
James Francis Gallatin
George Ticknor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Parker Willis
James Fenimore Cooper
P.T. Barnum
George Catlin
Margaret Fuller
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
Elihu Washburne
Henri James
Richard Harding Davis
Isadore Duncan
Edward Steichen
James Weldon Johnson
Theodore Dreiser
Edith Wharton
Randolph Bourne
Sherwood Anderson
Carl Von Vechten
Malcom Cowley
Matthew Josephson
Langston Hugues
Anita Loos
William Faulkner
E.E. Cummings
Charles Lindberg
Waverly Root
Ernest Hemingway
Hart Crane
Harry Crosby
Cole Porter
E. Scott Fitzgerald
Lincoln Kirstein
Henry Miller
John Doss Passos
Anne Morrow Lindgerg
Oscar Hammerstein II
Sylvia Beach
Janet Flanner
Ludwig Bemelmans
Richard Wilbur
Dawn Powell
Art Buchwald
James Baldwin
Irwin Shaw
S.J. Perelman
May Sarton
Paul Zweig
James Thurber
Sidney Bechet
A.J. Liebling
Virgil Thomson
Jack Kerouac
M.F.K. Fisher
Dorothea Tanning
Diana Vreeland


McCulloch, David. The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris. Simon & Schuster, 2012.