Authors Lynn Miller and Terry Dolan will present their book, Salut! France Meets Philadelphia. In Salut!, Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan trace the fruitful, three-centuries-long relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and France. This detailed volume illustrates the effect of Huguenots settling in Philadelphia and 18-year-old William Penn visiting Paris, all the way up through more recent cultural offerings that have helped make the city the distinctive urban center it is today. With lavish illustrations and enthusiastic text, Salut! provides a magnifique history of Philadelphia that celebrates a potpourri of all things French in the Philadelphia region.
 
Lynn Miller is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of, among other works, Global Order: Values and Power in International Politics and Crossing the Line (a novel), Postcards from Delphi (a memoir), and the co-author (with James McClelland) of City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System (Temple).
 
Therese Dolan is Professor Emerita of Art History at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is the author of Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time and Inventing Reality: The Paintings of John Moore, and the editor of Perspectives on Manet.
 
Copies of the book will be available for purchase. This event is free, in-person and open to the public.

This program is sponsored by Friends in the City (FitC) and the Philadelphia City Institute Library.