On the eve of the French Revolution, the future President of the United States of America visited the great wine regions of our country. “Le Figaro” has resumed its route.
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On February 28, 1787, one must imagine Thomas Jefferson, Ambassador to Paris of the United States of America, leaving his residence at the Hôtel de Langeac, avenue des Champs-Élysées, to visit in turn Auxerrois, Burgundy, the Rhône Valley, Provence, northern Italy, Languedoc, Bordeaux, Nantes, Angers, Tours and Orléans before returning to Paris, full of use and reason, on June 10.
Along with the one accomplished at the same time by the British agronomist Arthur Young, this tour of France recorded in his travel diaries constitutes an essential and moving testimony to the state of the kingdom in the last years of the Ancien Régime.
In his autobiography written on the eve of his life, the one who had become the third president of the United States in 1801 reported that he had undertaken this journey on the advice…
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