“Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.”
Quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. 6.
Thomas Gold Appleton , son of merchant Nathan Appleton and Maria Theresa Gold, was an American writer, an artist, and a patron of the fine arts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became his brother-in-law after marrying Appleton's sister Frances. Wikipedia
“Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.”
Quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. 6.