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Sargent, Violet,
345
,
347
,
431

Sartain, Emily,
338–39
,
341

Sasse, Marie,
257
“Savane, La” (Gottschalk),
176

Sax, Adolphe,
248

saxophone,
248

Scènes de la Vie de Bohémienne
(Murger),
221

School of Athens
(Raphael),
62

School of Design for Women,
341

Scientific American
,
241–42
,
446

Scott, Walter,
72

Scribner’s Monthly
,
375
,
384

Second Bull Run, Battle of,
243

Second Empire,
204–5
,
206
,
239
,
257

collapse of,
259

Sedan, Battle of,
259

Seine River,
21
,
26
,
40
,
41
,
44
,
121
,
206
,
296
,
425
,
450
,
451

Bennett’s praise of,
148

changing moods of,
46–47

sightseeing boats of,
247

Stowe’s observation of,
214

Senate, U.S.,
152–53
,
177
,
197
,
275

Brooks’s physical attack on Sumner in,
223
,
224–25
,
231

Sumner’s anti-slavery speech in,
223–24

Sumner’s disability and,
229–30
,
231

Senones,
25

Seventh Symphony (Beethoven),
256
,
366

Shakespeare, William,
301
,
312
,
366

Shattuck, George,
130
,
133

Shaw, Robert Gould,
430

Shaw Memorial,
430
,
448–49

Sheppard, Nathan,
270
,
284–85
,
287–88
,
289
,
294
,
296

Sheridan, Philip,
259

Sherman, William Tecumseh,
336
,
431

Sherman Monument,
431–32
,
438
,
446

difficulties with,
437
,
439–40
,
443

finishing of,
453–54

pedestal of,
454

plaster cast of,
439–40

in Salon exhibition,
439–40

size and scale of,
436–37

studio for,
436–37

in Universal Exposition of 1900,
448–49

unveiling of,
453–54

Victory figure in,
443
,
451
,
454

She Who Bathes Her Knees,
169

ships,
11–13

luxury,
210–11
,
219

steam engines of,
139–40

Sibbet, Robert,
288
,
298

Sichel, Jules,
119

Siddons, Sarah,
79

Silliman, Benjamin,
84
,
96

Simmons, Edward,
399

Sirius
,
139–40

Sketch Book, The
(Irving),
12–13

Sketches of Paris: In Familiar Letters to His Friends; by an American Gentleman in Paris
(Sanderson),
58

Skinner, Thomas Harvey,
150

slavery,
195–96

Sumner’s denunciation of,
223–24

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and,
211–12

Smith, Ashbel,
73–74
,
86–87
,
107–8

Smithson, James,
180

Smithsonian Institution,
180
,
447

Société Anonyme des Artistes, La,
see
Impressionists

soda fountains,
248

Soeurs de la Charité,
111

Soir, Le
,
304

Sorbonne,
7
,
29
,
30
,
106
,
118
,
119
,
223

Sumner at,
59
,
130
,
131

Spain,
389
,
395

Spotsylvania, Battle of,
278

Spy, The
(Cooper),
70

Stamaty, Camille,
164

Statue of Liberty
(Liberty Lighting the World)
,
334
,
404–5

Stendhal,
410

Sterne, Laurence,
37

Stevenson, Fanny,
409

Stevenson, Mary,
see
Cassatt, Mary

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
409–10
,
431
,
432
,
448

Stewart, A. T.,
342

Stowe, Calvin,
212

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
192
,
201
,
211–18
,
228
,
236
,
329

European tour of,
217

Louvre visits of,
215–17

Raft of the Medusa
admired by,
216–17

Seine observed by,
214

in Tuileries Gardens,
213

Stratton, Charles,
see
Thumb, Tom

Strauss, Johann,
247

Strutting Pigeon,
168

Stuart, Gilbert,
8
,
75
,
78–79
,
144
,
146
,
148

Studio, The
(Homer),
250

Sturges, Jonathan,
428

Subercaseaux, Madame Ramón,
391–92

Suez Canal,
253
,
256–57

Sullivan, Louis,
335
,
408

Sully
,
98–99

Sully, Thomas,
8–9
,
63
,
78–79
,
146

Sumner, Charles,
3
,
9
,
10
,
15
,
62
,
97
,
199
,
211
,
223–29
,
232
,
235
,
236
,
240
,
313
,
424

Appleton’s relationship with,
226–29

on arrival in France,
20–21

Brooks’s physical attack on,
223
,
224–25

description of,
4

in Europe tour of 1857,
229
,
233

first Paris impressions of,
30–31

Louvre visited by,
42
,
47

at Notre-Dame Cathedral,
39

at opera and theater,
49
,
52

Paris convalescence of,
225–31

racial insight of,
131–32

at Rouen Cathedral,
23–24
,
444

slavery opposed by,
223–24

at Sorbonne,
59
,
130
,
131

statue of,
360

in trans-Atlantic voyage,
13–14

women’s relationship with,
227

Supper at Emmaus
(Titian),
91

Swager, Charles,
298

Sweden,
269

Swinburne, John,
290–91
,
298

Switzerland,
98
,
269

Sylphide, La
(ballet),
120

Taglioni, Marie,
120
,
135

description of,
49

Willis’s praise of,
49–50

Taglioni, Philippe,
49

Tanner, Henry O.,
427–28
,
448

Tannhäuser
(Wagner),
235
,
451

Tarbell, Edmund,
411

telegraph,
99–100
,
406

American patent sought for,
152
,
155–56

Atlantic cable and,
231–32
,
233

British patent sought for,
153

daily life and,
248

demonstrations of,
152
,
153–54
,
159–60

French patent sought for,
153
,
155
,
156–57
,
177

Morse code devised for,
152

Morse’s apparatus for,
151–52

operating line opened for,
159

telephone,
406

Temps, Le
,
406–7

Terry, Ellen,
420

Thalberg, Sigmund,
164–65

Thayer, Abbot,
335

theater,
48–51

Emerson’s enthusiastic view of,
48

Théâtre de l’Opéra,
208
,
236

Théâtre des Variétés,
89

Théâtre du Vaudeville,
172

Théâtre Français,
51
,
331–32

Théâtre Italien,
48–49

Thiers, Adolphe,
308
,
317–18
,
336

Third Republic,
259

prosperity of,
407

Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment,
243

Thoreau, Henry,
218

Thumb, Tom,
160–63
,
166
,
172
,
176
,
356
,
416

Thursby, Emma,
336

Times
(London),
326
,
403
,
420–21

Tintoretto,
344

Titian,
75
,
80
,
90–91
,
145
,
344
,
424

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