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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.”
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.
May 8, 2024 · February 3, 1949: Arrival in New York of the “Flambeau de la Reconnaissance” on board the French cruise ship De Grasse carried by part of the official French “Merci Train” delegation: (L to R): André PICARD, general secretary; Louis CAST, committee president; and Maurice ARTIGUENAVE, treasurer. The New York Times.
Feb 11, 2022 · Long not lost voices. ANDRÉ PICARD JR. picks up the hand drum and, in a strong resonant voice, begins singing a Nez Perce song to his rapt student audience. “Our music is not written down anywhere,” says the visitor to the Washington State University ethnomusicology class.
Nov 22, 2015 · The discovery is described by André Maurois as “resembling a fairy tale.” They entered into the Lafayette library at the top of the northwest tower. Not a single object had been moved. The mail from the general’s last days was in the drawer, unopened.
Lafayette Junior High School faculty in group photo. Partner California Digital Library. Contributing Institution Los Angeles Public Library. Collection
Jan 16, 2019 · But here's a seldom-seen portrait of "American's favorite fighting Frenchman", Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, as a painfully geeky fifteen-year-old in 1773. He was tall for the time at 5’9”, and socially awkward.
