#1518 Back From France
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Clay Jenkinson has returned from his cultural tour in France and speaks to us this week about Jefferson's time there and the sites in France that were visited. Clay also shares insight on the relationships between Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John and Abigail Adams.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners. |
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| 0:25.0 | This week, Clay is back from France. |
| 0:27.9 | We made it through the trip. |
| 0:29.7 | And we spent this week's episode, |
| 0:32.9 | well, really talking a lot, some about your tour, |
| 0:35.7 | but about Jefferson's time in France. |
| 0:38.8 | And it's always a fun conversation, Jefferson in France. |
| 0:42.6 | So the 20 years ago, maybe 25, a friend of mine |
| 0:45.4 | named Michelle Bosta at the University of Nevada, Reno Library. |
| 0:48.9 | And I did a Jefferson in France trip, and it was just splendid. |
| 0:53.8 | And that was the template. |
| 0:55.0 | So we did it, I think, three years ago, perhaps four now, |
| 0:57.8 | before the pandemic. |
| 0:58.9 | And now we've done it again. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll do it in 2024. |
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