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1. france-amerique.com › the-merci-train-laying-theThe Merci Train, Laying the Tracks of French-American Friendship

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   Jan 31, 2024 · A bilingual inscription completed the design: “Gratitude Train, Train de la reconnaissance française.” André Picard, who chaired the National Organizing Committee, was pleased with the result: “The wagons that once carried weary men of war now carry gifts of peace.”

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3. azmemory.azlibrary.gov › nodes › viewFrom Friendship to Gratitude - The Merci Train Collection

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   Andre Picard, a French railroad worker and war veteran, suggested the creation of the French Gratitude (Merci) Train. To build the Merci train, he suggested the use of 49 WWI era boxcars, known as 40 & 8s.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Merci_TrainMerci Train - Wikipedia

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   Background. The idea to send a "thank you" gift to the United States for the $40 million in food and other supplies sent to France and Italy in 1947 came from a French railroad worker, and World War II veteran, named Andre Picard. [1]

5. rodama1789.blogspot.com › 2015 › 11Memories of Lafayette: the Château of La Grange-Bléneau

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   Nov 22, 2015 · Lafayette's wife Adrienne de Noailles reclaimed the property from the estate of her mother Henriette d'Aguesseau towards the end of the Revolution and gave it to Lafayette, who lived there from 1802 until his death in 1834. Lafayette added a park by Hubert Robert.

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6. www.vangoghmuseum.nl › en › personPicard, André - Van Gogh Museum

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7. news.artnet.com › art-world › borghese-masterpiecesHow a 17th-Century Power Struggle Over Caravaggio’s Art ...

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   Sep 29, 2024 · Rome’s Galleria Borghese has loaned a trove of Renaissance and Baroque works to the Musée Jacquemart-André.

8. www.ft.com › content › 7c8c111d-73ab-40cb-9fd9-5c82aGuillaume Houzé of Galleries Lafayette: ‘Artists have been at ...

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   Oct 13, 2023 · “She and my grandfather loved art, and collected the art of their time: André Lanskoy or Serge Poliakoff, Hans Hartung, Jean-Michel Atlan,” he says. But Houzé set off on a different route.