The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (91 page)

160
Democratic National Convention:
Prime,
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
, 497.

160
“This is indeed the annihilation”: Galignani’s Messenger
, July 12, 1844.

160
Coinciding with all this excitement:
Starr,
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
, 59.

160
With a genius for publicity:
Saxon,
P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
, 9.

161
“The people like to be humbugged”: New York Times
, November 9, 2007.

161
a child from Bridgeport, Connecticut:
Saxon,
P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
, 123–24.

161
He was perfectly formed:
Barnum,
Struggles and Triumphs of Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum
, 16.

161
“for the opportunity”:
Ibid., 135.

161
He paid the boy’s parents:
Ibid., 163.

161
“to test the curiosity”:
Ibid., 165.

161
“decided hit”:
Ibid., 173.

161
before Her Majesty Queen Victoria:
Ibid., 176–77.

161
“The French are exceedingly impressionable”:
Ibid., 192.

161
He settled Tom:
Ibid., 188–89.

162
Yet Tom Thumb:
Ibid., 193.

162
Tom came attired: New York Commercial Advertiser
, April 26, 1845.

162
“apt pupil”:
Barnum,
Struggles and Triumphs of Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum
, 164.

162
When a lady: New York Commercial Advertiser
, April 26, 1845.

162
The king asked:
Ibid., April 16, 1845.

162
Tom performed an original dance:
Ibid., April 26, 1845.

163
Reportedly the wardrobe:
Ibid.

163
“
FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY
”: Galignani’s Messenger
, March 24, 1845.

163
The grace, readiness:
Ibid., March 27, 1845.

163
Shop windows:
Barnum,
Struggles and Triumphs of Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum
, 193.

163
So great was the attendance:
Ibid., 193.

163
The pale, slender:
Starr,
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
, 59–60.

164
The boy had been born:
Ibid., 15, 24, 21, 29, 33, 45.

164
One immensely wealthy young woman:
Ulrich Leben and Robert McDonald Parker,
The American Ambassador’s Residence in Paris
, Special Issue of
Connaissance des Arts
(Paris: SFPA, 2007), 10–11.

164
Young Moreau was enrolled:
Starr,
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
, 46.

165
“This child is surprising”:
Ibid., 48, 49.

165
Moreau had been in Paris three years:
Ibid., 59.

165
According to one study:
Ibid., 50.

165
Chopin outshone them all:
Ibid., 55.

165
His debut at the Salle Pleyel:
Ibid., 59.

166
“Good, my child”:
Ibid., 60.

166
“the neatness and elegance of his playing”: Le Courrier de la Louisiane
, May 17, 1845.

166
“chiefly to the upper ranks”:
Ibid.

166
Midway into April: Galignani’s Messenger
, April 17, 1845.

166
Besides the more than five hundred paintings:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, Vol. II, 211.

166
Catlin’s story:
See generally, Obituary,
New York Times
, December 24, 1872, and William Dunlap, “Mr. Catlin’s Lectures,”
NewYork Mirror
, October 14, 1837.

166
“a whole lifetime of enthusiasm”:
Gurney and Heyman, eds.,
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
, 30.

167
“a vast country of green fields”:
Ibid., 40.

167
“the proud and heroic elegance”:
Ibid., 28.

167
“rescue from oblivion”:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, Vol. I, 217.

167
In 1839 he offered:
Gurney and Heyman, eds.,
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
, 63.

167
The paintings went on display:
Ibid., 65–66, 69.

168
The servants in the house:
Ibid., 206.

168
“There was a great outcry”:
Ibid., 207.

168
“My father”:
Ibid., 208.

168
Others in the delegation included: Galignani’s Messenger
, April 17, 1845.

168
“of fine stature”:
Ibid.

169
While the Indians continued their sightseeing:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 205.

169
“No tragedian ever trod the stage”:
Gurney and Heyman, eds.,
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
, 157.

170
all with their wampum:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, Vol. II, 211.

170
“in the most free and familiar manner”:
Ibid.

170
“Tell these good fellows”:
Ibid., 212.

170
In the winter of 1797–98:
Dippie,
Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage
, 120.

170
“This,” wrote Catlin:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 212.

171
With ceremony befitting a head of state:
Ibid., 212–14.

171
“and sounding the frightful war-whoop”:
Ibid., 215.

172
“the most magnificent place God ever prepared”:
Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, Vol. I, 24.

172
“energy of character and skill”:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 319.

172
In the midst of such reflections:
Ibid., 320.

173
“crowds of savants”: Galignani’s Messenger
, May 24, 1845.

173
“drawing full and fashionable”:
Ibid., May 30, 1845.

173
“wild America”
and
“natural man”:
Sand, “Relation d’un Voyage Chez les Sauvages de Paris,”
Le Diable à Paris: Paris et Les Parisiens
, 205–207.

173
Delacroix was among:
Gurney and Heyman, eds.,
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
, 75.

173
At first, I felt:
Sand,
Le Diable à Paris: Paris et Les Parisiens
, 205.

174
The carefree Parisian audience:
Ibid.

174
“the proud, free character”:
Gurney and Heyman, eds.,
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
, 235.

174
“one of the most curious collections”: Constitutionnel
, June 22, 1845.

175
Seeing the collection: Observateur
, October 9, 1845.

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“remarkable power”: Moniteur Industriel
, November 16, 1845.

175
Little Wolf, shattered, “heartbroken”:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 272.

175
Chopin mentioned her in a letter:
Chopin,
Chopin’s Letters
, 287.

175
“her feeble form wasted away”:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 276.

175
In the midst of his grief:
Ibid., 277–80.

176
Still more acclaim followed:
Ibid., 285, 293.

176
Ever the showman:
Saxon,
P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
, 143.

176
Moreau Gottschalk, who grew: Dictionary of American Biography
, Vol. IV, 442.

176
“retired”:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 311.

176
“I thus painted on”:
Ibid., 312.

176
Catlin’s Indian exhibition:
Dippie,
Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage
, 125.

177
Before leaving Paris:
Truettner,
The Natural Man Observed: A Study of Catlin’s Indian Gallery
, 53.

177
“My occupation was changed”:
Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, 323.