The Independent - London, June 25th, 1995
EIGHT YEARS ago, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala decided to write a screenplay about Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, and all-round mythical American. One relatively quiet passage in Jefferson's epic life drew her: his service as American ambassador in Paris from 1784 to 1789. Exile and the exile's observation of foreign cultures had always interested Jhabvala, as had repressed, lonely characters; all of these themes were there in Jefferson's French stay when, between leading a revolution and leading a country, he witnessed another revolut...
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