Mid - April 1961: the Bay of Pigs Invasion. May 5, 1961: Alan
Shepard becomes the first American in space. Late May 1961:
President and Mrs. Kennedy travel to Paris. Of the three events,
the last might seem the least significant, but that visit - of
which JFK famously quipped "I am the man who accompanied
Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it" - led to a
spectacular feat. The first lady charmed Parisians with her
style, grace and fluent French and scored an even bigger coup
when the French Minister of Culture promised to loan her the
"Mona Lisa," the most valuable work in the Louvre. Margaret
Leslie Davis perfectly captures the magic of the Kennedy White
House, behind - the - scenes maneuvering and the stories of the
major players on both sides of the Atlantic in Mona Lisa in
Camelot.  In the beginning, only Mrs. Kennedy and Andr  comments
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