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History:
French, 18th century. When Thomas Jefferson traveled to France in 1784 to serve
as a trade minister to the Court of Louis XVI, he took his twelve-year old
daughter, Martha, with him and placed her in a convent school, the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont. On her arrival, Martha could
speak very little French, but a year later she wrote, “There are fifty or
sixty pensioners in the house, so that speaking as much as I could with
them I learnt the language very soon. At
present I am charmed with my situation.” She
studied painting, harpsichord, needlework, history, geography, reading and
Latin. She generally saw her father once a week, but when Jefferson
traveled outside of Paris, Martha missed him greatly, and urged him to
write long letters, and often. Genuine, Museum Authorized Reproduction
hand-cast by the
lost-wax method
in the US.
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