I’m here to take you away to see more of the Visitors to Versailles 1682-1789 exhibit that was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years ago. And, for the next few minutes, I want to highlight two American men mentioned in the exhibition who traveled to Versailles around the American Revolution and what their experiences might have been like.

Part of the Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles by John Vanderlyn, 1818-1819

For those of you that don’t know, Versailles...