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.
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The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...
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An aesthetic and politic portrait of Mexico ́s 90s decade through the biography of artist Rita Guerr...