A Parisienne in Chicago
Madame Léon Grandin (1864-1905) was a Parisienne who lived in Chicago with her husband. a prominent sculptor commissioned to work on the World's Columbian Exhibition fountain, from August 1892-June 1893. Her spirited reaction to the city, Impressions d’une Parisienne à Chicago, was originally published in France in 1894.
Mary Beth Raycraft, is a senior lecturer in French in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on French women travelers to the United States.
Arnold Lewis, professor of emeritus of art history at the College of Wooster, is the author or coauthor of several books on American architecture, including An Early Encounter with Tomorrow, American Victorian Architecture, American Country Houses of the Gilded Age, and The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age.