Salut!: France Meets Philadelphia

by Lynn Miller, Therese Dolan

Overview

One highly visible example of French influence on the city of Philadelphia is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, modeled on the Champs-Élysées. In Salut!, Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan trace the fruitful, three-centuries-long relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and France. This detailed volume illustrates the effect of Huguenots settling in Philadelphia and 18-year-old William Penn visiting Paris, all the way up through more recent cultural offerings that have helped make the city the distinctive urban center it is today. 

Salut! provides a magnifique history of Philadelphia seen through a particular cultural lens. The authors chronicle the French influence during colonial and revolutionary times. They highlight the contributions of nineteenth-century French philanthropists, such as Stephen Girard and the Dupont family. And they showcase the city’s vibrant visual arts community featuring works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rodin Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and the Joan of Arc sculpture, as well as studies of artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. There is also a profile of renowned Le Bec-Fin chef Georges Perrier, who made Philadelphia a renowned culinary destination in the twentieth century.

With lavish illustrations and enthusiastic text, Salut!celebrates a potpourri of all things French in the Philadelphia region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439917121
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	11/20/2020
Edition description:	1
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	664,719
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lynn Miller is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of, among other works, Global Order: Values and Power in International Politics and Crossing the Line (a novel), and the co-author (with James McClelland) of City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System (Temple).  Therese A. Dolan is an Emerita  Professor of Art History at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is the author of Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time, and Inventing Reality. The Paintings of John Moore and the editor of Perspectives on Manet.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: How the French Have Helped Shape Philadelphia 1

1 The French in Colonial Pennsylvania 9

2 The Crucible: France and Revolutionary Philadelphia 17

3 A New Nation Is Born: French Art in Philadelphia 39

4 Federal Philadelphia in the French Revolution 61

5 Detente in Philadelphia and for the Nation 87

6 The Appeal of French Art for Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia 105

7 All Manner of French Matters in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia 125

8 Philadelphia, Paris, and Thomas Eakins 149

9 From the Schuylkill to the Seine: Mary Cassatt and Henry Ossawa Tanner 185

10 Philadelphia's Champs-Elysees and Other French Inspirations 217

11 Moving into Modernism 241

12 Barnes and Mastbaum Enrich the Parkway, and Philadelphia's French Outdoor Art 283

13 Three Centuries of French Cuisine, Plus Recent Gallic Contributions 303

Conclusion: The French and Philadelphia 321

Notes 331

Bibliography 371

Index 385