
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.

as Thomas Jefferson

as Maria Cosway

as Sally Hemings

as Patsy Jefferson

as D'Hancarville

as Richard Cosway

as James Hemings

as Madison Hemings

as Louis XVI

as Madame Abbesse

as Marie Antoinette

as Marquis de Lafayette

as Camille Desmoulins

as Dr. Guillotin

as Julia

as William Short

as John Trumbull

as Monsieur Petit

as Adrienne de Lafayette

as George Washington de Lafayette

as King's Translator

as Mesmer

as Assistant

as Mary Hemings

as Reporter

as Royal Indian Man

as Head and Heart Game