Not incidentally, his travels in France made Jefferson the greatest wine aficionado of the New World. It was a period of great satisfaction and creativity for Jefferson, who had grown up on the frontier of western Virginia, and was observing high culture for the first time. This was perhaps the last true romance of his life. And he fell in love in France with a gifted musician, painter and infamous beauty, Maria Cosway.
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Accordingly, he wrote a series of amazing and provocative letters to his closest friend James Madison about the need to make sure that the United States never reached the state of corruption, inefficiency and decadence of the regime in France. He was politically radicalized by observing the “failed state” of France, where a tiny handful of families lived like gods on earth and 20 million could barely put a loaf of dark bread on the table. Jefferson described her as having "qualities and accomplishments, belonging to her sex, which might form a chapter apart for her: such as music, modesty, beauty, and that softness of disposition which is the ornament of her sex and charm of ours." ()In France he fell in love with European high culture - music, dance, architecture, painting, landscape gardening and the art of conversation. Maria Hadfield Cosway, an artist and musician, was part of Thomas Jefferson's intimate circle of friends during his time in France.
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