- HD 1080
- Runtime: 139m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: France, United States of America, United Kingdom
- Director: James Ivory
- Stars: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandiwe Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jean-Pierre Aumont
- keywords: ambassador, france, paris, france, revolution, biography, versailles, president, 18th century
- Production_studio: Merchant Ivory Productions, Touchstone Pictures, Franco London Films
- Slogan: A powerful man torn between his love for one woman and his secret desire for another.
- The Jefferson in Paris is featured in the top rankings of 1995
- #84 in Top Romance Movies of 1995
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
