library of, 117
lines of study at, 109 “petites écoles” of, 246
Sumner’s visit to, 228
typical day at, 108
École des Beaux-Arts, 190, 191, 240, 246, 366, 405, 427, 428
Daumier’s retrospective at, 451–52
Richard Morris Hunt at, 190–91
Saint-Gaudens at, 254–56, 258
Sargent enrolled at, 348
Edinburgh Review, 92
Edison, Thomas, 406, 415, 417
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 445
Eiffel, Gustave, 404–9
Eiffel Tower, 446
construction of, 406, 408–9
Edison’s opinion of, 417
and 1889
Exposition Universelle, 414–17
projected cost of, 405
protests against, 405–7
site for, 405, 406
wind issue in design of, 408
Elder, Louisine, see Havemeyer, Louisine Elder
Électeur Libre, 291
Elements of Geography (Morse), 76
Eliot, Charles, 431
Ellsworth, Henry L., 152, 155–56
Élysée Palace, 203
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 35–36, 48, 54, 55, 135, 185–86, 189, 190, 199, 218, 329, 424
Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary, 4, 59
Encyclopédistes, 147
End of the Trial (Fraser), 437
Erie Canal, 84
Escape, The; or, A Leap for Freedom (Brown), 196
Escudier, Madame Paul, 392, 395
Eugénie-Marie de Montijo, Empress of France, 206, 236, 256, 259
in flight to England, 260–63
Evans, Agnes, 261
Evans, Thomas W., 202, 204, 209–10, 227, 252, 269, 290, 351
escape of Empress Eugénie and, 261–63
Expositions Universelle, see Universal Expositions
Fairchild, Mary, 411
Falconer, The (Couture), 191
Faneuil Hall, 198–99
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 222
Farlow, Dr., 376
Farragut, David Glasgow, 360–61, 374
Farragut, Mrs. David, 383
Farragut Commission, 377
Farragut Project, 360–84, 430
bronze cast of, 382
clay molds of, 374, 379
clay relief of, 366
commission offered for, 360–61
difficulty with leg of, 375–76, 380, 381
figures of Courage and Loyalty of, 377, 383–84
final location of, 377–78
financial compensation for, 361
height of, 377, 378
inspiration for, 373
in Paris Salon, 381
Paris venue for work on, 361–62
pedestal of, 367, 369–71, 376–77, 378, 382–83
plaster mold of, 374, 380–81
progress of work on, 362, 365–66, 378–80
reviews of, 381–82, 384
shipped to New York City, 382
size and scale of, 373, 380
studio for, 363, 365
success of, 384
unveiling of, 383–84
White’s collaboration on, 367, 369–71, 376–77, 378, 382–83
fashion in Paris, 33–34, 49, 162, 204, 235
Faust (Gounod), 451
Favre, Jules, 283, 300, 309
Felix (dressmaker), 252
Female Bear that Walks on the Back of Another, 168, 175
Femmes Savantes, Les (Molière), 52
Ferris, George, 446
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, 430
Figaro, Le, 353, 409
Finance Ministry, French, 321
Fish, Hamilton, 293–94, 299, 305, 309, 321, 324
Fitzpatrick, John Bernard, 234
Flaubert, Gustave, 332, 410
Follies Bergère, 257
Forbach, Battle of, 259
Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (Morse), 150
Fort Sumter, 235–36
Fort Wagner, 430
Foucault, León, 424
Four Bears, 169
Fourcaud, Louis de, 403
Fourth Impressionist Exhibition (1879), 387, 389
Foyot’s, 367
France, 10, 145, 219, 227, 334, 447
American Civil War as viewed by, 244–45, 251
Amor Caritas purchased by, 449
cholera epidemic of 1832 in, 85–89
James on, 331–32
Morse honored by, 231–32
“Panama Bubble” and, 414
Prussia’s conflict with, see Franco-Prussian War
Revolution of 1848 in, see Revolution of 1848
Saint-Gaudens honored by, 443
Sargent honored by, 419
Suez Canal opening and, 256–57
see also Second Empire; Third Republic
Francis I, King of France, 91
Franco-American Union, 334, 356
Franco-Prussian War:
cost of, 303
escape of Empress Eugénie in, 260–63
German occupation of Paris in, 305–6
Napoleon III and, 258–60
onset of, 257–58
siege of Paris in, see Paris, siege of
Franklin, Benjamin, 3, 12, 57, 71, 74, 104, 220, 329
Fraser, James Earle, 427, 437–38, 449–50, 453
Frazee, Louis, 122
Free Soil Party, U.S., 223
French Academy, 65
French and Indian War, 71
French language, 32–33
French Revolution, 41, 106, 147, 258, 407
Reign of Terror in, 11, 94, 325
Friends of Order, 308
Fuller, Margaret, 188–90, 192
Fulton, 225, 227
Fulton, Robert, 64
Gaget, Gauthier & Compagnie, 356, 404
Gale, Leonard, 151–52
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 176
Galignani’s bookstore, 27–28, 236
Galignani’s Messenger, 160, 168–69, 172–73, 233, 236, 320, 326, 327, 334, 338
Galignani’s New Paris Guide, 25, 28, 32, 44, 45, 52, 53, 186
Gallery of Fine Arts, 220
Gallery of the Louvre (Morse), 166, 197
absence of French artists in, 97–98
composition of, 63–66
Cooper as figure in, 96–97
Cooper’s visits to, 63, 65–66, 68, 74
figures in, 95–97
genre of, 63–64
masterworks included in, 90–91, 95–96
Morse at work on, 61, 65–66, 68, 89–91, 93
purchases of, 100–101
reviews of, 100
time pressure and, 90–91, 95
Gambetta, Léon, 259–60, 336
in escape from siege of Paris, 281–82
Grant’s meeting with, 356
gambling in Paris, 53
Garabit Viaduct, 408
Garde Mobile, 268
Garde Nationale, 268
Gardner, Augustus, 115, 116–17
Gare de Lyon, 314
Gare du Nord, 271
Gare Saint-Lazare, 406
Garnier, Alfred, 239, 255, 257–58, 264, 365, 372
Garnier, Charles, 236, 261, 286, 331, 407
Gautreau, Pierre, 398
Gautreau, Virginie Amélie Avegno, 398–99, 400, 401–4
see also Madame X
Gay, Walter, 349, 352, 415
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 403
Gazzetta di Parma, 338–39
General Mills, 275
Geneva Medical School, 192
Geography Made Easy (Morse), 76
George III, King of England, 78
Géricault, Théodore, 65, 216, 261
Germany, 98, 149, 186, 303
emigration from, 211
see also Franco-Prussian War
Gérôme, Jean-Léon, 254, 343
Gettysburg, Battle of, 243
Gibbo
n, Edward, 145
Gibson, William, 133
Gilder, Richard Watson, 375, 379–80, 384
Girl Arranging Her Hair (Cassatt), 419
Gleanings in Europe (Cooper), 101
Gleyre, Charles, 222
Goncourt, Edmond de, 299, 317, 323, 332
Gooch, Philip Claiborne, 122
Gottschalk, Aimee Brusle, 164, 165
Gottschalk, Clara, 166
Gottschalk, Edward, 164
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 160, 163–66, 335, 392
concert tours and fame of, 176
death of, 176
debut of, 163–64, 165–66
New Orleans-Paris connection and, 164
Gounod, Charles, 257, 407, 451
Government of National Defense, 283, 284, 286
Grand Hôtel, 286, 333–34
Grand Prix Day (Hassam), 412
Grant, Jesse, 356
Grant, Julia, 356
Grant, Ulysses S., 243, 258, 273–74, 278–79, 373
Gambetta’s meeting with, 356
Healy’s portrait of, 336, 355–56
Great Britain, 79, 219
anti-American sentiment in, 92
Great Exposition of 1851, 211
Great Western, 140, 159
Greenough, Gordon, 390
Greenough, Horatio, 62, 67–68, 74, 96
Grimes, Frances, 434
“Grisette, La” (Holmes), 121–22
Gros, Antoine-Jean, 58, 141–42
Grousset, Pascal, 310–11
Gruet Foundry, 382
Guillaume Tell (Rossini), 226
Guizot, François, 145–46, 181, 183, 227, 424
Gun Foundry, The (Weir), 249
Habersham, Richard, 75, 95, 99–100, 152
Hafen, John, 411
Haldeman, Eliza, 337
Hale, Ellen Day, 411
Hale, Mary, 346, 350
Harper’s Weekly, 243, 397
Hartzwell (minister), 427
Harvard Law School, 276, 333
Harvard Medical School, 109, 133–34
Harvard University, 6, 7, 77, 109
Hassam, Childe, 411–12
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 206–9, 219, 246
Havemeyer, Henry O., 342, 417–18
Havemeyer, Louisine Elder, 341–42, 352, 353, 417–18
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 215, 218, 236, 329
Hay, John, 441
Hayes, Rutherford B., 355
Hayne, Joseph Y., 197
Hayne, Robert Y., 177
Healy, Agnes, 146
Healy, Arthur, 146, 198
Healy, Edith, 336–37
Healy, George, Jr., 197–98, 337
Healy, George P. A., 8–9, 15, 62, 154, 191, 196, 240, 335, 371, 429
Andrew Jackson’s portrait by, 146–47
as art student, 58, 141–42
Bismarck’s portrait by, 336, 351
Chicago Fire of 1871
and, 335
death of, 448
Grant’s portrait by, 336, 355–56
John Quincy Adams’s portrait by, 146–47
Lincoln’s portraits by, 234–35, 336
Louis-Philippe’s portrait by, 143–44, 145
Louvre visited by, 140–41, 145
marriage of, 143
in move to Chicago, 220–21
in Paris Salon, 143
Paris studio and residences of, 196–97, 335
physical appearance of, 142
as portraitist, 336–37, 142–47, 177
Washburne’s portraits by, 269, 355
Webster painted by, see Webster’s Reply to
Hayne Healy, Kathleen, 335
Healy, Louisa Phipps, 143–46, 177, 197–98, 221, 335, 336, 371, 429
Healy, Mary, 177, 336
Helleu, Paul, 389, 390
Héloïse (Whistler’s companion), 222
Henri, Robert, 387, 411–14, 416, 427, 448
Henry II, King of France, 24
Henry IV (Henry of Navarre), King of France, 40–41, 43, 104
Heraclites, 131
Hermitage, 146–47
Herodotus, 175
Hiawatha (Longfellow), 235
Hiffernan, Joanna, 249
History of the United States (Adams), 444
History of the United States, or Republic of America (Willard), 5
Hoffman, Wickham, 269, 271, 272, 283–84, 291, 294–95, 300, 301, 308, 321
Holmes, Amelia Jackson, 134, 423–24
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 134
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 4, 32, 35, 51, 53, 62, 75, 103, 112, 118, 125, 213, 218, 240
background of, 6–7
description of, 4
as essayist, 134
in farewell Paris visit, 423–25
in first trans-Atlantic voyage, 15–18
Louvre visited by, 42, 424
medical career of, 133–34
as medical student, 108, 109, 111–13, 115–17, 119–20, 123, 126–27, 128
on Dr. Louis, 134
Paris as “paradise” to, 56–57
Pasteur’s meeting with, 424–25
Holy Family (Murillo), 91, 96–97
“Home, Sweet Home,” 31
Homer, Eugenie “Genie,” 364, 369, 376–77, 438
Homer, Thomas, 358, 360
Homer, Winslow, 243, 249–50, 350, 358, 448
Hooper, Robert, 109
Hôpital de Bicêtre, 105
Hôpital de la Charité, 104, 105, 112, 130
Hôpital de la Pitié, 104, 105, 116, 124
Hôpital de la Salpêtière, 105
Hôpital des Enfants Malades, 104–5, 119
Hôpital des Vénériens, 119
Hôpital Saint-Louis, 105, 119
Horse Fair, The (Bonheur), 411
Hospital of Foundlings (Hospice des EnfantsTrouvés), 55–56
hospitals, 104–5
Hôtel Bristol, 356
Hôtel Continental, 211
Hôtel de la Paix, 227
Hôtel de Salm, 44
Hôtel des Étrangers, 27
Hôtel des Invalides, 45, 193
Hôtel de Ville, 168, 185, 259, 260, 284, 287, 300, 338, 347
in Paris Commune, 308–9, 319, 320, 322, 326
Hôtel Dieu, 85–86, 87, 115
demolition and reconstruction of, 207–8
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