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.

• DirectorJames Ivory
• Release31 March 1995
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration2h 19m
• Budget$14,000,000
• Revenue$2,474,000
• Rate
  

  5.2
  42 reviews
• Productions

  Merchant Ivory Productions, Touchstone Pictures, Franco London Films, Gaumont