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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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2. 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.

3. smallstatebighistory.com › merci-train-visitsThe Merci Train Visits Woonsocket: A French Connection

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   This crucial aid and its source did not go unnoticed by the French. Andre Picard, a railroad worker and war veteran, began a drive to fill forty-nine railroad cars—one boxcar for every state, plus one shared by Washington, D.C and Hawaii (which was a state at the time)—with gifts.

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

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   Nov 22, 2015 · La Grange-Bléneau is the foremost site in France with Lafayette associations. The 14th century manor in the municipality of Courpalay, in the department of Seine-et-Marne belonged in the 18th century to the d'Aguesseau family.

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6. www.francaisdeletranger.org › en › 2024/05/08MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: VE DAY & THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE “MERCI ...

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   May 8, 2024 · They were: André PICARD, general secretary and originator of the “Merci Train” with Commander Guy DE LA VASSELAIS; Louis CAST, Committee president; and Maurice ARTIGUENAVE, treasurer, all railroad veterans of World War I, members of the French Resistance in World War II and officials of the French Gratitude Train National Committee, en ...

7. encyclopediavirginia.org › entries › marquis-deMarquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) - Encyclopedia Virginia

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   Oct 19, 2024 · Marquis de Lafayette leads a “brilliant retreat” at the Battle of Barren Hill, saving himself and 2,200 Continentals from capture and foiling British plans to take control of several major roads to Philadelphia.

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   When did Lafayette die?

   • He returned to the United States in August 1824 for a triumphant thirteen-month tour of all twenty-four states. Lafayette died in Paris in 1834. Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757, to Michel du Motier and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière on the family’s estate in Auvergne in central France.

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   • Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757, to Michel du Motier and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière on the family’s estate in Auvergne in central France. Lafayette’s ancestors had fought for France since the Crusades, and he was especially proud of his father, who was killed in the Seven Years’ War when the boy was just two years old.

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   Why was Lafayette imprisoned?

   • In 1782, Lafayette returned to France, where he promoted reform, advocating the end of the absolutist monarchy and its replacement by a constitutional monarchy. A supporter of the French Revolution in its early phase, he fled the country after the Jacobins came to power. He was arrested in Austria and imprisoned from 1792 until 1797.

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   Why did Lafayette go to South Carolina?

   • Lafayette subsequently met Silas Deane, an American agent in Paris, and was promised a commission in General George Washington’s army. When the French king, Louis XVI, forbade Lafayette from leaving the country, he bought a merchant ship, renamed it La Victoire, and set sail for the United States, arriving in South Carolina on June 13, 1777.

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   Did Lafayette get a Doctor of Public Service?

   • In May 2010, Lafayette College, the only college in America to bear his name, awarded Lafayette the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Service at its 175th commencement. Lafayette’s sword, taken from him when he was captured in Austria in 1792, is one of the most precious artifacts in the Marquis de Lafayette Collections at Lafayette College.

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   Why did Lafayette return to France in 1782?

   • In January 1782, Lafayette returned to France as a national hero. He reunited with his wife, daughter, and son, who was named for George Washington; another daughter, Virginie, was born the following September. Lafayette dedicated himself to promoting democratic causes, including the abolition of slavery.

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9. about.lafayette.edu › the-marquis-de-lafayetteThe Marquis de Lafayette - About

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   A young, wealthy French aristocrat with an impressively lengthy name, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, defied his own king to enter the American Revolution against Great Britain.