A Year in Paris that transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

A Year in Paris that transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Washington |Updated: June 29, 2019 5:45:18 pm

A Year in Paris that transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

As a college student, Jacqueline Bouvier spent her junior year in Paris, and the city became one of the greatest influences in her life.

Le Select, a classic Montparnasse cafe, saw a steady stream of college students when Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis studied in Paris, as it does today. (Source: The New York Times)

In August 1949, a 20-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier arrived in France and began a year that would change her life. Before her marriage to Jack and Aristotle, before the glamour and the tragedy, before she lived in the White House or worked at a publishing house, she was a college student boarding a ship to spend her junior year abroad in Paris.