*NEW BOOK*

BARBIZON BY THE PACIFIC

THE EARLY DAYS OF MONTEREY’S BOHEMIAN ART COLONY
with
JULES TAVERNIER, JULES SIMONEAU
& ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

by:
Claudine Chalmers &
Guy de Rougemont

Foreword: Terry L. Trotter
Preface: Gary F. Kurutz

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300 Pages of French-American Art and History centered around California’s Monterey region in the late 1800s.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Claudine Chalmers was knighted by the French Ministry of Culture for her decades-long work on California’s French heritage. This is her third book on Jules Tavernier. Guy de Rougemont is a historian and journalist living in Southern France. In 2011, he published Lazard Frères, Banquiers des Deux Mondes with Editions Fayard.

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PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
ISBN:  978-1-956579-51-2

French San Francisco

by: Claudine Chalmers

Nineteenth-century California was not a destination for the faint of heart, and Frenchmen are usually said to prefer their slippers to their traveling boots. Yet many visitors from France starting in 1786 with legendary explorer Count de Lapérouse made their way to the remote and beautiful territory, leaving enduring accounts and images of their experience. As France’s troubled revolutionary era began in the 1840s, tens of thousands of Frenchmen journeyed to California’s goldfields. Some found wealth, others freedom, and some death. Many remained in San Francisco, helping shape the city and make it French from the inside.