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The Voyage of the Hermione and 235 Years of Franco-American Friendship


Following a long winter and wet spring, summer has finally arrived in Washington, D.C., and with it come hundreds of thousands of tourists, drawn by the monuments and museums to the city designed by Frenchman Pierre l’Enfant. Many will no doubt stroll in Lafayette Park facing the front of the White House, a verdant square named for another Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette. He was a remarkable man to whom Americans have shown gratitude ever since he arrived on the shores of South Carolina in 1777 as a 19-year-old nobleman offering French assistance in the Revolutionary War. For the next …read more

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