In this photo taken Friday, July 19, 2013, tourists gather around the Thomas Jefferson Statue next to Musée d'Orsay during a Guided Tour around the main spots of the Revolutonary-era American presence ...

PARIS – In a story July 4 on the unveiling of a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Paris, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Jefferson served as George Washington's minister to France in 1785.

Jefferson had addressed the topic of slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, and the published version had extended his views to a wide audience in America, England, and France, where he had had ...

PARIS – The tourist hordes crowding the entrance to Paris' Musee d'Orsay may be too occupied fighting to keep their place in line to notice, but just steps away is a monument that symbolizes the ...