Meh, he was widowed, never remarried. And it’s well documented she went to Paris with him during his time there. She could have stayed in Paris free, but decided to return to Monticello with Jefferson. By all accounts she was 3/4 white younger than him and attractive. She learned French also.
Nothing really weird about it, and I can’t see how it trashes him. And it fits in with his wildly curious, rebellious and iconoclastic nature.
No big deal except at Stormfront maybe.
How do you know that he ever had an affair with her?
Not only that, they stayed together for decades and had multiple kids together.
Agree wonder if the black slave owners had a white woman working in their house stories may be different?.
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