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During his time in France in the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson made an extensive trip to England. He met the king, toured fashionable gardens, and according to his traveling companion, John Adams, he even took a splinter from a chair that allegedly belonged to Shakespeare. 

In this live Q&A, Thomas Jefferson (as interpreted by Bill Barker) discusses Jefferson’s English sojourn, and what he learned along the way.