18th century:  

• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Franklin -- Wikipedia
• Benjamin Franklin:  World of Influence - France  --  PBS
• "Our Man in Paris:  How Benjamin Franklin Wooed the French to Win Our War"  --  Lisa Rogers, Humanities
• "Franklin in Paris"  --  Stacy Schiff, The American Scholar
• Benjamin Franklin in Paris  --  ParAmericana
  
• excerpt from documentary on Franklin as a diplomat in France  --  You Tube
• Abigail Adams
• Abigail Adams  -- Wikipedia
• Abigail Adams  --  Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• John Adams in Paris  --  ParAmericana
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Jefferson -- Wikipedia
• [Thomas Jefferson in] Paris -- The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
• Jefferson in Paris, 1784-1789 -- Harlan Lewin
• Jefferson in France, 1784-1789  --  SparkNotes
• Thomas Jefferson in Paris  --  ParAmericana
  
• video excerpt:  Jefferson in Paris  --  History Channel

19th century:  

• Gouverneur Morris
• Gouverneur Morris  --  Wikipedia
• "The Fun-Loving Founding Father:  Gouverneur Morris, the First Modern American"  --  Will Wikinson, Reason.com
• review of Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution by Melanie Randolph Miller  --  Peter S. Onuf, Dipolmatic History
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Paine in Paris  --  ParAmericana
• Thomas Paine -- Steven Kreis, The History Guide
• Thomas Paine:  The Radical Founding Father  --  National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
• Thomas Paine -- Wikipedia
• James Gallatin
• James Gallatin -- Wikipedia
• Americans in Paris:  James Gallatin  --  Just Another American in Paris (blog)
• George Ticknor
• George Ticknor  --  Wikipedia
• George Ticknor  --  Warner Berthoff, Harvard Magazine
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  -- Wikipedia
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ralph Waldo Emerson  --  Wikipedia
• Americans in Paris:  Ralph Waldo Emerson  --  Just Another American in Paris (blog)
• Nathaniel Parker Willis
• Nathaniel Parker Willis  --  Wikipedia
• James Fenimore Cooper
• James Fenimore Cooper  --  Wikipedia
• James Fenimore Cooper  --  ParAmericana
• P. T. Barnum
• P. T. Barnum  --  Wikipedia  
• George Catlin
• George Catlin  --  Wikipedia
• Margaret Fuller
• Margaret Fuller  --  Wikipedia
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Beecher Stowe  --  Wikipedia
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nathaniel Hawthorne  --  Wikipedia
• [Hawthorne in Paris]  --  Jim McAllister,  The Salem News
• "Mark Twain" (Samuel Clemons)
• Mark Twain Quotes on France and the French  --  TwainQuotes.com 
• Mark Twain  --  Wikipedia