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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

Gibbon, Edward,
145

Gibson, William,
133

Gilder, Richard Watson,
375
,
379–80
,
384

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