#1337 The Vaunted Scene
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🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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"Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe! […] I find the general fate of humanity here, most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil."
— Thomas Jefferson, 1785
We speak with President Jefferson about his time spent in France.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast, |
| 0:02.5 | listeners, so nice to have you here. |
| 0:04.4 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:06.0 | And before we get too out of range, |
| 0:09.2 | thank you for supporting the Thomas Jefferson Hour. |
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| 0:13.8 | If you'd like to help the show continue and grow, |
| 0:16.5 | go to Jefferson Hour.com. |
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| 0:21.2 | and get access to all sorts of things and we really do appreciate it. |
| 0:26.8 | In October I am leading a Jefferson tour to France and I'll tell you this if you can hear |
| 0:31.6 | this program and not want to go to France then you are more |
| 0:36.0 | Skeptical than I am just in preparing for this program. I just felt such a an eagerness to get to France. |
| 0:44.6 | But what's the plaque downtown that you go see? |
| 0:47.6 | There's a plaque that somebody put up. |
| 0:50.2 | It was a place where Jefferson used to live. Do you see that? |
| 0:53.4 | Yes, so there about I made a list of about about 30 places you could go to in |
| 0:58.0 | Paris that are all Jefferson. About seven or eight of them are really, really important. |
| 1:04.6 | And then there's of course the countryside. |
| 1:06.3 | We're going to Arl, to Neim, where the Mezon Corre is, which was the model for the capital |
| 1:11.9 | in Richmond. We're going to the Canal de Meadee, the Canal in Jefferson. |
| 1:16.5 | So a lot of those places are probably not changed as much |
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