Lieux de Mémoire française aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique
(Inventaire en cours) v.10 (F) – Mise à jour 1er mars 2021
1 Statue de la Liberté Liberty Island, New York, NY 10004 https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm
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v Offerte en témoignage d’amitié par le peuple français aux États-Unis, la statue monumentale la plus célèbre du monde est l’oeuvre du sculpteur Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Sa charpente métallique fut conçue par Gustave Eiffel, également alsacien. Son appellation officielle est «la Liberté éclairant le monde». Elle est reconnue comme le symbole universel de la liberté et de la démocratie et devenue l’un des symboles des Etats-Unis. v L'idée d'un monument présenté par les Français aux États-Unis fut d’abord proposée par Edouard René de Laboulaye, président de la Société française anti-esclavagiste et éminent penseur politique de son temps. Fervent partisan de l'Union pendant la guerre civile américaine, il est censé avoir dit: «Si un monument devait s'élever aux États-Unis, en souvenir de leur indépendance, je pense qu'il serait naturel qu'il soit construit d’un commun effort - une œuvre commune de nos deux nations.” v Bartholdi pris sa propre mère comme modèle. Des dizaines de milliers de français, dont de nombreux écoliers, cotisèrent pour sa construction. Assemblée et désassemblée à Paris dans les ateliers Puget, ses plaques de cuivre furent numérotées et transportées dans des caisses. L'éditeur Joseph Pulitzer du New York World lança une campagne de dons pour construire le piédestal auprès de plus de 120 000 contributeurs, dont beaucoup étaient des immigrants récents. La plupart donnèrent moins d'un dollar. v La Statue de la Liberté fut inaugurée le 28 octobre 1886. Elle a été classée “National Monument” en 1924. v La Statue ne comporte aucun symbole emblématique de l'ordre américain, aucun drapeau ou aigle. La tablette dans la main gauche de Liberty n’est pas la Constitution, mais la Déclaration d’Indépendance de 1776.
2 PLAQUES DU SOUVENIR Church of Notre Dame 405 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10025 https://ndparish.org/
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v Ces plaques recensent les noms de 463 volontaires Français et Américains aux Etats- Unis, des Membres de l’Escadrille Lafayette et de l’American Field Service « Morts Pour la France ». Originellement conçues et installées en 1921, ces plaques furent augmentées et complétées par le Colonel Roger Cestac, président de l’American Society of Le Souvenir Français dans les années 1980, et furent transférées de l’Eglise de St Vincent de Paul à l’Eglise Notre-Dame en 2018. v Ce projet a été possible grâce à Monseigneur John Paddack, sollicitée par Françoise Cestac. Une levée de fonds auprès de la Communauté Franco-Américaine de New York, et notamment de notre bénéfacteur principal Jean-Hugues Monier, de l’ American Society of Le Souvenir Français Inc., de l’Association des Cadres de Réserve Français aux Etats-Unis (ACREFEU), du Comité des Associations Françaises et de langue Française (CAFUSA), des membres de la Fédération des Anciens Combattants de New York et aussi par des donations venant de Métropole. v Une messe pour la Célébration de la Victoire et de Jeanne d’Arc a lieu annuellement (le dimanche le plus proche du 8 Mai) v Une Messe de l’Armistice a lieu annuellement (le dimanche le plus proche du 11 Novembre)
3 FLUSHING CEMETERY - Carré des Anciens Combattants Français 163-6 46th Ave, Queens, NY 11358 Entrée à 46th Avenue & 162th Street. En voiture de Manhattan (c’est le moyen recommandé): prendre le Northern Boulevard, tourner à droite sur la 162ème rue et à gauche sur la 46ème Avenue.
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• A la Toussaint nous honorons nos anciens camarades qui reposent dans ce magnifique Cimetière après avoir combattu pendant la 1ère et 2ème Guerre Mondiale, la Guerre d’Indochine, la Guerre d’Algérie et les combats de Tunisie et du Maroc. • Au centre du Carré, une tombe au nom D’Eugène Bullard, Caporal, engagé volontaire dans la légion Etrangère, puis 1er pilote Africain- Américain à avoir combattu dans l’aviation Française et Américaine en 1917 et décoré de l’insigne de Chevalier De la Légion d’honneur par le Général de Gaulle en 1959. • Il y a aussi, la tombe de Milda Pathé, la fille unique des cinémas Pathé. • Non loin du Carré des Anciens Combattants Français, se trouve aussi celle du Célèbre trompettiste Louis Armstrong.
4 GRAVE SITE of EUGENE BULLARD 9 Oct 1894 - 13 Oct 1961 (aged 67) Flushing Cemetery 163-6 46th Ave, Queens, NY 11358 Sec on C, No. 7, Plot 53 h ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Bullard
• Au centre du Carré des Anciens Combattants, une tombe au nom d’Eugène Bullard, Caporal, engagé volontaire dans la légion Etrangère, puis 1er pilote Africain-Américain à avoir combattu dans l’aviation Française et Américaine en 1917 et décoré de l’insigne de Chevalier De la Légion d’honneur par le Général de Gaulle en 1959. • Eugène Bullard était un soldat afro-américain très décoré (un mitrailleur affecté au 3e régiment de marche de la Légion étrangère, le 170e régiment d'infanterie française et le service aérien français en tant que mitrailleur) et pilote de combat (Lafayette Flying Corps & Squadron N .85) qui ont combattu avec les forces françaises pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. • Il a été reconnu officiellement par l'US Air Force comme le premier pilote de chasse noir américain. • Cette parcelle est la propriété à perpétuité de la Fédération des Anciens Combattants Français (Federation of French War Veterans)
5 CYPRESS HILLS – Carré des Marins Français 625 Jamaica Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11208 Cimetière National de Cypress Hills – Jamaica Ave, angle de Hale Street, (limite de Brooklyn et du Queens).
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• Cérémonie organisée tous les mois de novembre le plus près de la Toussaint (ou au cours des escales des navires de la Marine Nationale) par la Fédération of French War Veterans et par l’American Society of The Souvenir Français Inc. pour honorer les 25 marins Français morts pour la France à New York de la grippe Espagnole en 1918. Trois de ces marins ont été rapatriés en France.
6 Overseas Service League Flagstaff and Grove Central Park East 69th Street redcross.org
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• En 1925, un bosquet commémoratif de Central Park de 24 arbres et mât a été conceptualisé pour un hommage aux femmes américaines engagées et décédées à l'étranger pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. • Ce bosquet symbolique et ce mât ont été redécouverts en 2019. Aujourd'hui, le mémorial vivant d'arbres florissants reconnaît les femmes qui ont servi la nation américaine d'innombrables façons. Il parcourt le mur le long de la Cinquième Avenue de la 69ème à la 71ème Rue. • La première cérémonie de commémoration a eu lieu le 12 novembre 2019, le lendemain de la Journée des Anciens Combattants. Des recherches sont actuellement en cours pour identifier les noms de ces volontaires.
7 Dorrance Brooks Park Square 369ème Régiment de la première unité Africaine Edgecombe Ave &, W 136th St, New York, NY 10030 https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dorrance-brooks-square
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• Monument érigé en l'honneur du 369e Régiment de la première unité afro-américaine à combattre pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, également connue sous le nom de «Harlem Hell Fighters» et / ou «the Black Ratters». Ce régiment n’a jamais reculé devant l'ennemi et a reçu la Croix de Guerre. • Ce parc est nommé en l'honneur de Dorrance Brooks (décédé en 1918), un soldat afro-américain décédé en France peu avant la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale. Natif de Harlem et fils d'un ancien combattant de la guerre civile, Brooks était un soldat de 1eère Classe dans le 15ème régiment d’Infanterie. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, les soldats afro-américains ont servi dans des régiments séparés et n'étaient pas éligibles à l'aide de l'Army Nurse Corps ou de la Croix-Rouge américaine. Malgré ces découragements, Brooks s'est distingué comme un soldat fidèle et patriotique. Brooks a été félicité pour sa «bravoure signalée» en emmenant à la charge le reste de sa compagnie après que ses officiers fussent tous tués. • https://www.6sqft.com/dorrance-brooks-square-a-harlem-enclave-with- world-war-and-civil-rights-ties/
8 Vietnam Veterans Wall Soldats Français engagés
55 Water St, New York, NY 10041 https://www.vietnamveteransplaza.com/about-vietnam-veterans-plaza/
40.7032255 N,-74.0090671 W
• ‘’Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day ’’organisé par « the Veterans Affairs » de la Ville de New York. Quelques noms de Français appelés dans l’Armée Américaine sont gravés sur le Mur du Mémorial. Des recherches sont en cours pour collecter davantage d’informations. • "Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day" hosted by the Department of Veterans Affairs of New York City. Some names of Frenchmen called up in the United States Army are engraved on the Memorial Wall. These names will be identified eventually.
9 DeWitt Clinton War Memorial
W. 52nd St. &, 11th Ave, New York, NY 10019 https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/de-witt-clinton-park/monuments/271
• Invita on par le Gouvernement Belge (Consulat Général des Flandres) pour célébrer l’anniversaire de la 1ère Guerre Mondiale avec la par cipa on de la Fédéra on of French War Veterans et de l’American Society of the Souvenir Français Inc. pour honorer les « Dough Boys ». • Deux cent mille soldats français périrent pendant la bataille de la Somme.
10 Statue de Jeanne d’Arc
Riverside Drive & W. 93rd St Joan of Arc Park, New York, NY 10025 https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/riverside-park/monuments/819
40.800333,-73.971459
• Statue de Jeanne D’Arc – Riverside Park, près de la 93ème Rue • Une cérémonie prenait place à chaque escale du P.H. ‘’Jeanne D’Arc’’ ce qui n’est plus le cas, ce porte-hélicoptères navire-école de la Marine Nationale ayant été désarmé. • Cette impressionnante sculpture équestre en bronze de la Sainte martyre française du XVe siècle Jeanne d'Arc (1411–1431) est l'une des plus belles œuvres d'art de la collection du Parks Commission de la Ville de New York. Créée par l'éminente artiste et mécène Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973), la pièce a été inaugurée en 1915. Un groupe de citoyens éminents a formé un comité du "Monument Jeanne d'Arc" en 1909. • Le 6 décembre 1915, la sculpture a été dévoilée lors d'une cérémonie élaborée, qui comprenait une fanfare militaire et l'ambassadeur français Jean J. Jusserand. Mme Thomas Alva Edison faisait partie des personnes sélectionnées pour tirer le cordon qui dévoila la statue. • Huntington a eu une longue et illustre carrière, et a également sculpté la statue du patriote cubain, José Martí (1965), qui se dresse à Central Park South et Avenue of the Americas. 11 New York Korean War Veterans Memorial 10 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10004 https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/battery-park/monuments/1930 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Battalion_(Korean_War) 40.7034544,-74.0165614 • Guerre de Corée - Un monument est situé au bas de Manhattan (Battery Park) pour honorer la coalition internationale dont faisait partie un bataillon de 1017 volontaires français, sous commandement américain. • Paul L.Freeman Jr., le commandant du 23rd US Infantry Regiment, a dit du bataillon français: «Quand vous leur donnez l'ordre [aux Français] en défense, vous êtes sûr qu'ils occuperont le poste. Lorsque vous leur montrez une colline à saisir, vous êtes sûr qu'ils réussiront à atteindre le sommet. Vous pouvez partir pour deux jours, des tempêtes d'obus et des vagues d'ennemis peuvent leur tomber dessus, les Français sont toujours là! »
12 Verrazzano Bridge
New York, NY
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• L'inscription gravée est située à l'arrière du piédestal de la statue de Giovanni da Verrazzano érigée en 1909. Elle se lit comme suit: «En avril 1524, le navigateur d'origine florentine Verrazzano conduisit la caravelle française La Dauphine à la découverte du port de New York et nomma ces rives Angoulême en l'honneur de François Ier roi de France» Photo credit: Larry Gertner of New York, New York • Verrazzano, fils d'une famille noble, est né au Castello Verrazzano à Greve près de Florence, en Italie. Au début de la vingtaine, il a déménagé à Dieppe pour commencer une carrière maritime et a navigué au nom de la monarchie française. En 1523, avec le soutien du roi de France François Ier, ainsi que des banquiers florentins, Verrazzano embarque sur le navire La Dauphine à la recherche d'un passage vers l'océan Pacifique et l'Extrême-Orient. • Au cours de ce voyage, Verrazzano a exploré le littoral comprenant maintenant la côte est des États-Unis et du Canada et, en 1524, est devenu le premier Européen connu à être entré dans la baie de New York. • Pour une relation approfondie de ses voyages, visitez le site: http://www.rouen-histoire.com/Verrazano/Expose.htm
13 Cérémonies pour commémorer les victoires de Saratoga et Yorktown St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street 209 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/about/stpaulschapel
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• Pour l’année 2018 et pour l’année 2019, les Cérémonies pour commémorer les victoires de Saratoga et Yorktown ont eu lieu au Cimetière de St Paul’s Chapel (Broadway au bas de Manhattan). Elles ont été organisées par the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, en collaboration avec notre camarade récemment décédé en février 2021 Frédéric Vigneron (French Air Force Reserve) et avec la participation de la Fédération of French War Federation, l’American Society of Le Souvenir Français, et l’Association des Cadres de Réserve Français aux Etats-Unis (ACREFEU).
14 • La Route Washington – Rochambeau a été homologuée L’ American Society of the Souvenir W3R – US. Français Inc. est impliquée avec la • Notre sociétaire et Ancien Comba ant Serge Gabriel a participation de la Federation of accumulé nombre de documents sur ce e route, le long de laquelle nombre de soldats français sont enterrés ou French War Veterans et le National ont fait leur vie en Amérique après la bataille de Yorktown Park Service (projet en cours).
15 March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Plainfield Pike Plainfield Pike (Connecticut Route 14A), Plainfield, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Route_of_Rochambeau%27s_Army:_Plainfield_Pike
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• A 3.6-mile-long road segment in Plainfield and Sterling, Connecticut that is a portion of the historic march route. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. • It is a portion of Connecticut Route 14A, locally known as Plainfield Pike, which is level in the eastern part but generally hilly with curves. Along the route is open land including pasture and cornfields, wooded areas, and streams including Ekonk Brook. It is bordered by stone walls about 50 feet apart on both sides for most of the way. • The only concentration of houses as of 2002 was of 18th- and 19th- century homes in the Sterling Hill Historic District. • The roadway was poor and caused difficulty for the French artillery and baggage trains. The segment includes views of countryside evocative of how the land would have been in 1781 for the troops marching through. The Dorrance Inn, Sterling, CT mentioned in multiple French accounts Photo credit by Magicpiano - https://commons.wikimedia.org 16 March Route of the French Army: Old Canterbury Rd Western Plainfield, Connec cut
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• A historic site in Plainfield, Connecticut along the march route of the French army commanded by Rochambeau. • This segment of road is one of many that was traversed by Rochambeau's troops in June 1781 on their way to Virginia, and again in November 1782, on their return to Rhode Island. The passage of the French army along this route is documented by period route map drawn by French military engineer Louis- Alexandre Berthier. • French chroniclers of the march noted that it had "farms sown with rye and wheat, but especially with maize. . . and with potatoes", but that they also passed through "many woods, mostly of oaks and chestnut trees" in the area between their third camp (in Plainfield) and their fourth in Windham.
Photo credit by Magicpiano - https://commons.wikimedia.org 17 March Route of the French Army: Manship Road – Barstow Road Canterbury, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Route_of_Rochambeau%27s_Army:_Manship_Road- Barstow_Road 41°42ʹ7ʺN 72°0ʹ13ʺW
• Part of the march route in Canterbury, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 • It is significant as a preserved section of the march route which, in this area, is followed by what is now Connecticut Route 14. This section, is a bypassed loop of road, cut off by a road realignment in the 1930s, and therefore without traffic and not modernized • Rochambeau's troops marched through here in June 1781 and found the road along this general area to be the most difficult along their whole journey. The road has been paved but the visual appearance is still evocative of the historical period.
18 Photos credit By Cathy Cline - h ps://commons.wikimedia.org March Route of the French Army: Palmer Road Eastern Scotland, Connecticut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Route_of_Rochambeau%27s_Army:_Palmer_Road 41°41′57″N 72°3′47″W
• This road, then in places little more than an unpaved track, was the route taken by French commander Rochambeau’s troops in 1781 and again during their return march in 1782 between Providence, Rhode Island and Yorktown, Virginia. French chroniclers of the march described the portion east of Scotland as a narrow, steep, stony road, and their baggage wagons arrived late at their camp in Windham on the westward march in 1781 • The road is now a modern paved two-lane road, but its characteristics are very much as described by the French in 1781, rising steadily and sometimes steeply. Typical New England fieldstone walls line significant portions of the road, another feature commented on by French chroniclers. Views from the road are across hundreds of acres of farmland, lined by stone walls and trees, again very typical of the march period
Photos credit By Magicpiano - https://commons.wikimedia.org 19 March Route of the French Army: Scotland Road Windham, Connecticut
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• The French troops camped beside the road within this segment in 1782. It was listed on the Na onal Register of Historic Places in 2003. • The notable sec on of the road is about 1,700 feet (520 m) in length, running roughly from Ballamahack Road in the west to Back Road in the east. The roadway is now paved, but the stone walls and views of countryside are much as it would have been in 1781-82. • On the return trip from Yorktown in 1782, the French army established a camp in the field on the north side of this road sec on
20 Photos credit By By Magicpiano - https://commons.wikimedia.org March Route of the French Army: Hutchinson Road Andover, Connecticut
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• It is a 2-acre (0.81 ha) historic site in Andover, Connecticut along the 1781-82 march route of Rochambeau's army. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.It is primarily a section of roadway and includes White’s Tavern. • The historic section of the roadway consists of the portion south of Hendee Road. It is an asphalt-paved roadway, with a right of way 22 feet (6.7 m) wide, lined for most of its distance by stone walls. • The segment includes just one building: White’s Tavern, which is also historically associated with the Rochambeau march. This road is identified on maps prepared by French engineers who determined the Rochambeau army's march route in 1781. White's Tavern is known to have quartered French officers during both the southward march in 1781 and the northward march in 1782. The army encamped in the area north of Hendee Road on the 1782 march. The Marquis de Chastellux was among the French officers who stayed here.
21 Photos credits: Top: by Magicpiano Bottom by: By Sphilbrick https://commons.Wikipedia.org. March Route of the French Army: Bailey Road Bolton, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Route_of_Rochambeau%27s_Army:_Bailey_Road
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• It is a section of abandoned, old roadway that is a historic site in Bolton, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The roadway is one of the most intact sections in Connecticut of the march route taken by French troops under the command of Rochambeau in 1781 • Both sides of the road were historically lined with stone walls; that on the south side is now in better condition than that to the north. There are two short stone slab bridges along this road section, which are little more than stone slab box culverts. Unlike many other surviving Rochambeau Route segments, this one is completely devoid of subsequent development • French chroniclers of the Rochambeau army's trek were highly critical of the road conditions in Connecticut. They described the route between their fourth and fifth camps ( Windham and Bolton, respectively) as being "frightful", with "mountains and steep ridges", that one writer said they traversed "with the greatest difficulty imaginable". The road was originally laid out in 1710 and was in the 1790s bypassed by more suitable routes. The eastern end is now marked by an interpretive sign.
22 Photo credit: :By Sphilbrick - https://commons.wikimedia.org Fourth Camp of the French Army Windham, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Camp_of_Rochambeau%27s_Army#/media/File:WindhamCT_ RochambeauCamp4.jpg 41°42ʹ3ʺN 72°8ʹ43ʺW • The Fourth Camp of Rochambeau's Army is a historic military camp site near Plains Road and Lovers Lane on the banks of the Shetucket River in Windham, Connecticut. It was here that the French Army under the command of Rochambeau encamped in the summer of 1781, en route from Providence, Rhode Island to the New York City area. Four divisions passed through, each one night apart, starting with the Bourbonnais on June 21, then the Royal Deux-Ponts, then the Soissonnais, and finally the Saintonge division, on successive nights. • One of Rochambeau's aides described Windham at the time as "a charming market town, where, incidentally, there were many pretty women at whose homes we passed the afternoon very agreeably." Of the camp site, he wrote, "A mile away is a beautiful river (the Shetucket) with a fine wooden bridge. We camped on its banks very comfortably, though hardly militarily." • The camp site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003
23 Photos credit By By Magicpiano - https://commons.wikimedia.org Fifth Camp of the French Army Bolton, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Camp_of_Rochambeau%27s_Infantry
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• The Fifth Camp of Rochambeau's Infantry, also known as Site 12-25, is a historic site and an archeological site in Bolton, Connecticut, on the march route of the French Army on its way to the Hudson River and ultimately to Yorktown, Virginia. It was used on four successive nights, the 22nd through the 25th of June 1781, by the four divisions of the French army (the Bourbonnais, the Royal Deux-Ponts, the Soissonnais, and the Saintonge). In the evenings, the French entertained locals by playing music and dancing with local women, on Bolton Green. • About 1 mile (1.6 km) before the Fifth Camp is Bailey Road and about a mile before that is Hutchinson Road, both on the way from Andover, and both also NRHP-listed. The road to the Fifth Camp was described as "frightful". The Bourbonnais division had to bivouac without its tents, as its supply wagons were delayed on the poor roads. • This site is listed for its information potential. According to a study completed in 2001, the site "is an open field that retains its visual qualities, with stone walls marking the same field lines as shown on the map prepared by the French engineers. The camp was occupied for four nights in a row, one night by each regiment, in June 1781. A large number of artifacts have been recovered to date, including numbered regimental buttons, .66 caliber musket balls, period coins, and a lead bar.”
24 Photo credit By Sphilbrick - https://commons.wikimedia.org Forty Seventh Camp of the French Army Windham, Connec cut
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• The Forty-Seventh Camp of Rochambeau's Army is a historic military camp site in Windham, Connecticut. Located along Scotland Road a short way east of Windham Center, it was the site of the French Army camp in November 1782, when that army was en route from victory at Yorktown to Rhode Island. The camp site is considered of archaeological importance, because it can shed light on transient military camp sites, whose locations are not often known. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. • Rochambeau's 47th camp was, according to a map prepared by a French military engineer, located on both sides of Scotland Road, between Ballamahack Road and Middle Hill Road, east of the village center of Windham. The modern roadway, designated Connecticut Route 14, is one of the most evocative sections of the army's march route in terms if its landscape, and is also listed on the National Register. The site occupied by the army is about 15 acres (6.1 ha) in size, with the street-facing sections lined with stone walls. • When the French Army marched west from Providence to the area outside New York City in 1781, its chosen site in Windham was the fourth camp and was located west of Windham Center on the banks of the Shetucket River. French diarists described the route west of Windham as being particularly difficult. An enlisted man in the first brigade recounted having a rest day at this site on the return march, where they were joined by the second brigade "in frightful weather".
Photo credit By By Magicpiano - https://commons.wikimedia.org 25 Daniel Basset House 1024 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Basset_House
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• La maison Daniel Basset est une maison historique située au 1024 Monroe Turnpike à Monroe, dans le Connecticut. Construite en 1775, la maison est importante en raison de son association avec les événements de la guerre d'indépendance américaine. • Elle est située le long de la route de marche empruntée par l'armée française en 1781 se dirigeant vers Yorktown, en Virginie, et peut-être aussi lors de son retour. • Un bal a eu lieu dans la salle de bal du deuxième étage de la maison pour les officiers français de la section montée de Lauzun de l'armée de Rochambeau qui campait à proximité, le 30 juin 1781. • La maison, encore aujourd'hui une résidence privée, a été inscrite au Registre National des Lieux Historiques le 23 août 2002.
Photo credit By By Magicpiano - h ps://commons.wikimedia.org 26 Plaque du Souvenir, Camp de l’Armée française 55 Stockton St, Princeton, NJ 08540 (In front of the Princeton Battle Monument, One Monument Drive) 40.3477912 N,-74.666936 W • Le Sénateur des Français de l’Etranger André Maman et Bertrand Châtel, Président of the Committee Washington/Rochambeau Route de l’American Society of Le Souvenir Français, demandèrent à l’artiste Jean Lareuse de créer une plaque sur le lieu du campement. La carte est une reproduction du dessin de Berthier, ingénieur géographe en charge de tous les campements de Rochambeau pendant la guerre révolutionnaire. • Cette plaque en céramique de Jean Lareuse marque le 21ème campement de l’armée de Louix XVI, commandée par le Général de Rochambeau, le 31 août, 1781, en route vers la Victoire de Yorktown.
L’inauguration de la plaque eu lieu le 23 mai 1998. Les fonds furent levés par des amis de l’artiste Jean Lareuse. 27 Champ de Bataille de Yorktown, VA Yorktown, VA https://www.nps.gov/york/index.htm
• Le 240ème anniversaire de la bataille de Yorktown aura lieu du 15 au 19 Octobre 2021. L’American Society of the Souvenir Français Inc. et la Fédération of French War Veterans participeront aux cérémonies. • Entretien du Monument au morts français, embellissement de la clairière, rapprochement avec les associations patriotiques américaines sont nos priorités.
28 French Army Casualties at Yorktown https://www.nps.gov/york/learn/historyculture/french-army-casualties01.htm
• During the Bicentennial of the Battle of Yorktown in 1981, members of the French veterans' organizations attending the celebration noted that there was an area on the battlefield where approximately 50 French soldiers were buried in an unmarked, common grave. Although this area was indicated by a cross and a plaque, none of the names of any French soldier was inscribed there. It has long been a point of cultural tradition in France that the graves of those who died serving France are marked with their names whenever possible, or that the battlefields have a memorial with their names inscribed. At the urging of French veterans' groups, the Ambassador of France to the United States, His Excellency M. Emmanuel de Margerie, appointed a committee to correct this oversight. It was the Committee for the Yorktown French Memorial, with Professor André Maman of Princeton University serving as its president. The purpose of the committee, which included both French and American members, was to create a memorial to honor all French soldiers and sailors who gave their lives in the Yorktown campaign in 1781. The memorial was to include the names of some 600 Frenchmen* who lost their lives in this campaign, including the Yorktown siege and the naval battle of Chesapeake Bay, or the Battle of the Capes, as it is sometimes called. The committee's tasks included the design, approval, funding and dedication of the memorial. The design was completed with the approval of the Ambassador and the National Park Service. Members of the French Societies of the Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Order of the Cincinnati as well as French veteran and cultural organizations here were engaged in fundraising to reach the goal needed to bring the project to reality. Various American hereditary and cultural societies also participated as a gesture of appreciation for the French forces joining us in those desperate days in 1781 as General Washington and the French commanders adopted the extremely risky plan which led, against all expectations, to the final great victory at Yorktown.
29 French Alliance Day Valley Forge Memorial 1400 North Outer Line Drive King of Prussia, PA 19406 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge_National_Historical_Park https://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/history/alliance_washington.html
35.259905 N, -85.218319 W
• Au mois de Mai de chaque année une cérémonie est organisée par les Filles et les Fils de la Révolution avec la participation de l’Alliance française locale, de l’ Association Des Cadres de Réserve Français aux Etats-Unis (ACREFEU), de L’ American Society of the Souvenir Français Inc. et de la Fédération of French War Veterans. • The Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States was concluded at Paris, February 6, 1778 and ratified by Congress May 4, 1778. The treaty provided for a defensive alliance to aid France should England attack, and that neither France nor the United States would make peace with England until the independence of the United States was recognized. The knowledge of the Alliance came to Washington on May Day, 1778. • One week later General George Washington issued the following general order: “…Upon a signal given, the whole army will huzza, 'Long Live the King of France.’ ”….
30 The Alliance Statue
Morristown Green historical park, Morristown, New Jersey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morristown_Green https://revolutionarynj.org/places/washington-lafayette-hamilton-bronzes-morristown-green/
40.7973506 N,-74.480913 W
• Une sculpture également connue sous le nom “The French Are Coming”, dans Morristown, commémorant la rencontre entre Washington, Hamilton et le Marquis de Lafaye e le 10 mai 1780. • Dedicated on the Morristown Green in 2007, this life- size sculptural grouping in bronze, also known as “The French are coming” commemorates the mee ng of George Washington, the young Marquis de Lafaye e and young Alexander Hamilton, depic ng them discussing aid of French tall ships and troops being sent by King Louis XVI of France as support for the budding na on.
Bronze sculptural grouping designed by StudioEIS, Brooklyn Credit: By Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikipedia Commons 31 Ford Mansion - Washington's Headquarters 30 Washington Pl, Morristown, NJ 07960 https://www.nps.gov/morr/learn/historyculture/ford-mansion-washington-s- headquarters.htm
40.7968944 N,-74.4659876 W
• General Washington used the Ford Mansion as his headquarters during the winter of 1779-1780. • According to a plate located there, General Lafayette and the "Chevalier" Anne-César de la Luzerne, the Ambassador of France in the US from 1779 until 1984, stayed at the mansion. • Anne-César de la Luzerne never failed to show his sympathy for the young Republic. He even guaranteed a personal loan, much needed to furnish food for the troops in 1780. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and Lake Luzerne, New York, are named after him.
32 Rochambeau Day Hartford, CT Connecticut's Old State House 800 Main St Hartford, CT 06103 http://www.governorsfootguard.com/battrev/2014NOVBattalionReview.pdf
41.7660982 N,-72.6727024 W
• Chaque année en septembre défile la “First Company Governor’s Foot Guard” en commémoration de la rencontre à Hartford de Rochambeau et Washington au début de l’entrée en action de l’armée française. • To mark Rochambeau Day in Hartford, The First Company Governor’s Foot Gard lays a wreath at the ceremonial marker honoring the meeting between Generals Washington and Rochambeau. This meeting in 1780 became a key moment in planning the end of the Revolutionary War, and ensuring the start of French assistance.
33 Joseph Webb House
211 Main St, Wethersfield, CT 06109 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Webb_House https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec1.htm
41.7116894 N,-72.6529926 W
• This house, now the Webb-Deane-Stevens museum, was designated a National Historic Landmark for its significance as the location of the five-day military conference held in May 1781 between General George Washington and General Comte de Rochambeau (Commander of the French Army) during the American Revolutionary War that preceded the Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the war in North America.
( 41°42′41.6″N 72°39′13.4″W)
34 ODELL HOUSE 425 Ridge Rd, Hartsdale, NY 10530 https://www.odellrochambeau.org/
41.0195° N, 73.8174° W
• Située à 30km au nord de New York non loin de I87 et juste au sud de White Plains, cette ferme est en cours de rénovation et vient d’être rachetée par la ville de Greenburgh (Westchester County) pour être adaptée en musée. • Rochambeau établit son QG dans cette ferme en juillet-août 1781 et rencontra George Washington pour mettre au point la stratégie qui fut couronnée de succès à Yorktown. • Des contacts ont été initiés et doivent être poursuivis avec les « Friends of Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters » www.odellrochambeau.org
35 Annapolis – The French Monument St Johns Street & College Avenue h ps://www.annapolis.gov/DocumentCenter/View/10421/Monuments
38.9841° N, 76.4936° W
• Ce monument est peu visible depuis la rue et difficile d’accès car situé au fond d’un terrain. Il est cependant très impressionnant. • This monument marks the graves of the French soldiers and sailors who died in America’s War for Independence. It was dedicated on April 10, 1911 by President Taft and French Ambassador Jean J. Jusserand before a crowd of thousands. • It is the first known tomb to the Unknown Soldier anywhere in the world. The monument is bronze and the work of Baltimore sculptor J. Maxwell Miller.
36 Plaque at the Alexandria Camp of the French Army 609 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, Virginia
38.80965°N 77.04575°W
The camp of the wagon train of Rochambeau's army in Alexandria, Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. is commemorated by a historic plaque at 609 Oronoco Street
Wagons were ferried across and down the Potomac River from Georgetown in Maryland (in what is now Washington, D.C.) to Alexandria during September 24 and 25, 1781, and the wagon train departed on September 26.
Photo credit: Cliff from Arlington, Virginia, USA, via Wikimedia Commons 37 Plaque at the Peyton’s Ordinary, encampment of French Army 2664 Jefferson Davis Highway, Stafford, Virginia h ps://www.loc.gov/item/00552208
38.45191°N 77.40439°W
A commemorative marker at 2664 Jefferson Davis Highway identifies where Rochambeau's army camped one night in 1782 when marching north from Williamsburg.’
For more information, consult: “Amérique campagne 1782: plans des differents camps occupés Photo credit: http://www.markerhistory.com/peytons-ordinary-marker-e-79/ par l'armée aux ordres de Mr. le Comte de Rochambeau. Rochambeau”, J. D. V. (1782) Amérique Campagne. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00552208/.
Comte de Rochambeau's army marched north from Williamsburg, Va., to Boston, July-December 1782. The soldiers marched in four divisions, each a day's march apart, consequently the camps shown were occupied for four or more nights.
38 Trinity Church yard, Newport, R.I.
1 Queen Anne Square, Newport, RI 02840 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_(Newport,_Rhode_Island)
41.4872865 N ,-71.3144262 W • L’amiral de Ternay y est enterré et a sa plaque dans l’église
• Courant été 2021 seront installées dans le cimetière deux autres plaques en partenariat avec le National Park Service honorant deux officiers français de l’Etat-Major de Rochambeau
39 The Lafaye e Trail Dizaines d’endroits répar s tout au long des lieux visités par le Général La Faye e en 1824-1825. h ps://www.thelafaye etrail.org/
Le Général La Fayette fit un “Farewell Tour” triomphal aux Etats-Unis en 1824 et 1825. Partout où il fit étape, des dizaines de milliers d’américains se pressèrent pour le voir et lui rendre hommage. Rien qu’à New York, plus de 90000 personnes sur un total de 120000 habitants vinrent l’acclamer lorsqu’il fit son entrée dans le port! Tout au long de l’année 2024 seront célébrées dans chaque ville des cérémonies à ce Français illustre, souvent peu apprécié en France bien qu’il figure aux Etats-Unis au tout premier rang des Pères Fondateurs, pratiquement à l’égal de George Washington. Il suffit de lire les compte- rendus et les discours des maires et gouverneurs qui l’accueillirent, quelques 40 ans après l’Indépendance, pour s’en convaincre. The American Society of Le Souvenir Français compte s’atteler dès 2021 à des partenariats avec toutes les associations patriotiques américaines qui participeront à ces célébrations, au premier rang desquelles la LafayetteTrail Association, dirigée par son president Mr. Julien Icher, qui a déjà installé des dizaines de plaques “markers” partout où le Général Lafayette est passé.
40 Sansay House 16-10 Dehart St, Morristown, NJ 07960 (Note: this house is a private residence. Please respect the privacy and property of the owners.) h ps://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=32669 40° 47.689ʹ N, 74° 28.894ʹ W. Bronze marker erected in 1977 by Morris County Heritage Commission.
• Following a welcoming ceremony on Morristown’s Green on July 14, 1825,during his triumphal Farewell Tour, General Lafayette visited the home of Charles Ogden across the way on the corner of Market Street. Later he attended a sumptuous “men only” banquet given to him in the upstairs room of the Sansay House on DeHart Street. Afterwards, back at the Ogden House, he was introduced to the ladies of Morristown. He spent the night at the home of James Woods on South Street leaving for Philadelphia the next day. 41 Estate of Joseph Bonaparte Bordentown, N.J https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/nyregion/bonaparte-point-breeze- bordentown.html
The City of Bordentown and a land preserva on trust have bought Point Breeze, where Joseph Bonaparte once lived from 1816 ll 1839 and where he erected a sumptuous mansion, unfortunately no longer in existence. Their plan is to preserve New Jersey’s connec on to royalty and the Bonaparte family, and turn the 60 acres into a public park. We look forward to ini ate contacts with the town and explore ways to contribute to the Museum project.
42 Bevin House “The Little Prince House” 76 Bevin Road, Asharoken, NY 11768 Northport, Long Island atlasobscura.com/places/the-little-prince-statue-northport-new-York
40.9345509 N,-73.3790395 W
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife Consuelo moved into this large wooden residence in the early months of 1942. Built in 1862 by a wealthy New York shipowner, the house is Victorian in style and has 22 rooms. Antoine set up his office on the ground floor, in a room with a huge bow window. He le the rest of the house and the roof terrace to Consuelo, who organized par es in which French and foreign ar sts and men of le ers par cipated. Antoine worked on “Citadelle” and on a certain children's story… which he finally decided to illustrate himself, unconvinced by the overly elaborate drawings of his friend Bernard Lamo e. Now nicknamed "La Maison du Pe t Prince", the manor house has undergone extensions by the new owners. In memory of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's presence in Northport, a statue of the Li le Prince, the work of Winifred S. de Wi Gantz, was unveiled on September 16, 2006, in the courtyard of the municipal library.
43 Le Petit Prince – Statue Central Park project
• The Little Prince is Saint-Exupéry's most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the best-selling and most translated books ever published. It has been translated into 301 languages and dialects. The Little Prince has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film, television, ballet, and opera. • There are no statues of any French writer or poet in Central Park, and we believe that it would be appropriate to launch a fund-raiser and seek permission to erect a statue of “The Little Prince” in the Children’s District, not far from where the book was written at 240 Central Park South where St Ex lived a few months in 1942. • joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa—although he was far past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health. He disappeared while on a reconnaissance mission on his P-38 Lightning from Corsica over the Mediterranean on 31 July 1944. In May 2000, a French professional diver found the remains of a P38 plane in 230 feet of water off Marseille -- in the same area that a fisherman two years earlier had brought to the surface a bracelet inscribed ''Saint-Ex.''
44 Le Pe t Prince – Statue Central Park project Preliminary ideas of placements (on a rock, to echo the planet on which he stood)
45 Elsewhere in the United States….
There are dozens of notable loca ons with a tribute to France and/or an illustrious French historical figure
(List in Progress – Inventaire en cours) v.7 – Mise à jour February 9, 2021
46 Statue of King Louis XVI Jefferson County Courhouse, 527 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY https://louisville.cc/king-louis-xvi-of-france/ 40.4907034 N,-86.1370923 W
In order to thank King Louis XVI for his actions to help the United States become an independent nation, the Virginia legislature named a Virginia settlement in his honor. The town of Louisville was officially chartered by the Virginia Legislature in 1780, and became part of Kentucky upon the commonwealth’s statehood in 1797. The statue, at 12 feet tall and weighing 9 tons, came to Louisville in 1967 as a gift of Montpellier Mayor Francois Delmas. This marble representation of Louisville’s namesake was commissioned by the king’s daughter, Marie- Therese, and originally unveiled in the 1820’s in Montpellier, France, 36 years after his beheading. Louisville and Montpellier had become sister cities in 1956, and the then-138- year-old Achille-Joseph Valois sculpture was presented to Louisville Mayor Kenneth Schmied as a gift of friendship between the two cities. • This statue has been damaged during the protests of summer 2020, however the City Council recently passed a resolution to restore it and reinstall it at its original location.
47 Statue of Joan of Arc Maid of Orleans Place de France, Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116 https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1478 29.956722 N,-90.062744 W
“A Gift of the People of France to the Citizens of New Orleans” Erected in 1972, it is a copy of the 1899 statue at the Place des Pyramides in Paris by Emmanuel Fremiet. It was sent to New Orleans in 1958 by Robert Whyte of the World House in New York. When the statue arrived in the city, the city could not afford the $35,000 necessary to erect it. Consequently, it was stored for 8 years. In 1960, General Charles De Gaulle visited New Orleans and was received triumphantly. On his return to France, he asked citizens to form a Committee to start a fund-raising to finance the pedestal,, who reached their goal in 1964. Finally, in 1972, it was placed on a 17-foot pedestal on the Place de France at the foot of Canal Street. The statue was gilded in 1985. This statue was originally located in front of the International Trade Mart Building, but after the purchase of that location by Harrah’s casino, it was moved in 1999 to its present location of the 'Place De France" on Decatur Street in the French Quarter, next to the French Market on Decatur Street On the first day of the Carnival Season, the parade traditionally pauses in front of the statue to pay its respect. 48 Statue of Joan of Arc Maid of Orleans, Portland OR Coe Circle (at NE 39th & Glisan), Portland, OR https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joan_of_Arc_statue_with_pedestal_- _Portland,_Oregon.jpg 45° 31ʹ 34.65ʺ N, 122° 37ʹ 22.54ʺ W
A replica of the Gilt bronze equestrian sculpture of Joan of Arc by Emmanuel Frémiet, Place des Pyramides, Paris. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe donated the statue to the city in 1924 in honor of the doughboys of World War I. His son unveiled her during a patriotic ceremony on Memorial Day, 1925, a day that was also the anniversary of her martyrdom. The statue was restored in 2005, thanks to The National Endowment for the Arts as well as Target Stores, who created made a 'Save Outdoor Sculpture' conservation award of $24,000 towards the work needed on the statue. It is one of 8 statues of Joan of Arc in the world: Paris, Nancy, Mircourt and Lille - all in France; and Melbourne, Australia; New Orleans, LA and Philadelphia, PA.
49 Statue of Joan of Arc Maid of Orleans, Philadelphia, PA Kelly Drive at 25th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130 https://www.ushistory.org/districts/fairmountpark/joano.htm 39.969514 N,-75.18555 W
This replica of Frémiet’s statue came to Philadelphia in 1890 when it was purchased by the Fairmount Park Art Associa on (now the Associa on for Public Art) on behalf of the city’s French community. It was placed on the Girard Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia. It was then relocated to a site near the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1959, next to Pennsylvania Avenue, aka Benjamin Franklin Parkway (itself modeled a er the Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1917 by 2 French city planners, Paul-Philippe Cret and Jacques Grébert).
A Bronze marker reads: “Joan of Arc 1889 by Emmanuel Fremiet. A Gif to the City to commemorate the French Centennial by Philadelphia French Ci zens and the Fairmount Oark Art Associa on. Restored and Rededicated 2010 by the City of Philadelphia and French Heritage Society.” In 1898, French sculptor, Emmanuel Fremiet fashioned his gilded bronze statue of Joan of Arc, his model was a 15 year old girl by the name of Valérie Laneau, she too had been born in the town of Donrémy-la-Pucelle on the same day and month, January 6, as Joan had, and at the age of 77, Valérie was engulfed by flames from an oil lamp that she had been trying to light and she died on May 30, the anniversary of the death of Joan of Arc . 50 A work in progress… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_French_origin_in_the_United_St ates
• Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French explora on and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolu on and the founding of the country. • Others were named a er early Americans of French, especially Huguenot, ancestry, such as Marion, Revere, Fremont, Lanier, Sevier, Macon, Decatur, etc… • Some places received their names as a consequence of French colonial se lement (e.g. Baton Rouge, Detroit, New Orleans, Saint Louis, etc..) • Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin (Baton Rouge, Boise, Des Moines, Juneau, Montgomery, Montpelier, Pierre, Richmond, Saint Paul) - not even coun ng Li le Rock (originally "La Pe te Roche") or Cheyenne (a French rendering of a Lakota word), compared to only two that are Spanish (Sacramento and Santa Fe). • Fi een state names are either French words / origin (Delaware, New Jersey, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Vermont) or Na ve American words rendered by French speakers (Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin), versus eight state names that are Spanish, or Spanish rendered (California, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah). • The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American se lers became locally dominant (for instance "La Pe te Roche" became Li le Rock; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks). In contrast, Spanish place names in the Southwest were generally not replaced by English names. 51 Le Saviez-Vous? Did you know? … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_French_origin_in_the_United_St ates
• The town of Verde in Arizona was changed to Clemenceau in 1920 in honor of the French premier in World War I, Georges Clémenceau • Ozark is the phonetic rendering of either aux Arks, "of the Ark(ansas)" or aux Arcs, "of the arches", or possibly aux arcs-en-ciel, "of the rainbows” • Disneyland (after Walt Disney, a descendant of the Norman family d'Isigny (Isigny, Normandie, France) • Delaware named after Lord de la Warre (Anglo-Norman surname originally de la Guerre meaning; "of the war") • Ribault River (named for Jean Ribault leader of the Huguenot colony Fort Caroline in early Florida whose inhabitants were massacred by the Spanish) • LaGrange in Georgia ("The Barn", named for the French Estate of Marquis de Lafayette) • La Pérouse Bay, HI named after Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, first European to visit the island of Maui • Illinois, French version of Illini, a local Native American tribe • Chicago, IL, although not a French place name in itself, shikaakwa or "wild onion" in the Native-American Miami-Illinois language, the pronunciation of the "chi" (as opposed to the "chi" as in China) is the result of early French settlement • La Salle, IL (named after explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle)
52 Le Saviez-Vous? Did you know? … h ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_French_origin_in_the_United_St ates
• Des Moines, IA (from Rivière des Moines, "River of the Monks", the river flowing through the city) • Labette County, KS, named after Pierre La Bette, an early settler of French origin • Louisiana (Louisiane in French - named in honor of King Louis XIV of France in 1682) • Napoleonville, LA (for French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte) • Maine (named after the historic French province of Maine) • Havre de Grace, MD (named after Le Havre (originally Le Havre de Grâce) • Orleans, MA (named for Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans) • Montcalm County, MI (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War). • St. Louis, MO (named in honor of King Louis IX, later canonized as Saint Louis) • Valmy, MT and Valmy, NV, named after the famous battle during the Revolutionary period. • Clovis, NM (named for Clovis, first Christian King of the Franks)
53 Le Saviez-Vous? Did you know? … h ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_French_origin_in_the_United_St ates
• Grasse River, NY (named after the Comte de Grasse) • Lake Champlain, NY (lake named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain) • Massena, NY (named after André Masséna, one of Napoleon's field marshals) • New Rochelle, NY (founded by French Huguenots) • Grand Forks, ND (from the French "les Grandes Fourches" or the great forks) • Oregon (possibly from "le fleuve aux ouragans", French for "river of the hurricanes", referring to the windiness of the Columbia River) • Delano, CA, MN, PA (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye") • De Smet, SD (named for Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Belgian priest) • Crockett County, TX (Davy Crockett's ancestors were Huguenots named Croquetagne, one of whom was captain in the Royal Guard of Louis XIV) • Lamar County TX (named after early Texas leader Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar) • La Grange, TX (named after the Marquis de Lafayette's chateau in the Brie region outside of Paris)
54 Le Saviez-Vous? Did you know? … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_French_origin_in_the_United_St ates
• Bonneville Salt Flats, UT (named a er Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper and explorer) • Lamoille, VT (corrup on of the name La Moue e 'the seagull' which began when a map maker failed to cross the t’s) • Pend Oreille County, WA (named a er the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. French for "earring" and a reference to heavy earrings and distended lobes of the people of the same name) • Puget Sound, WA (named a er Peter Puget, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent) • La Push, WA (Clallam County), along the Quileute River on the Olympic Peninsula, home to the Quileute Indian Tribe (From la bouche, meaning "mouth", as infused into Chinook trading jargon) • Guyando e River, WV (a river in southern West Virginia, running from Wyoming County near Beckley, to the Ohio River near Hun ngton. Guyando e is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot.)
55 Le Saviez-Vous? Did you know? … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_French_origin_in_the_United_St ates
• Wisconsin (anglicized from the French "Ouisconsin", which in turn is a corrup on of the Ojibwe "Meskonsing") • Green Bay (anglicized from the French baie verte, previously "Baie des Puants" - "Bay of S nks") • Apple River, WI (corrup on of the French Rivière Pomme de Terre des Cygnes, which in turn is a transla on from the Ojibwe Waabiziipinikaani-ziibi, "River abundant with swan potatoes") • Cheyenne, WY (from the French pronuncia on and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminu ve of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people. • Grand Teton Na onal Park, WY (from French grands tétons, "large teats" - presumably referring to the mountains' shape) • Laramie (named from Jacques LaRamie, a French-speaking Canadian trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in the late 1810s)
56 Remerciements
• Cette liste a été établie en partenariat avec Alain Dupuis, Président, The Federation of French War Veterans, également 2ème Vice-Président de l’American Society of Le Souvenir Français Inc. ainsi que Paul Garabedian, Secrétaire de la Fédération of French War Veterans. • Cette liste préliminaire a vocation à s’étendre à beaucoup d’autres endroits notables aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique qui ont été marqués d’une empreinte française.
57 L’ American Society of Le Souvenir Français, vise à : • Conserver la mémoire des soldats, marins et aviateurs français qui ont donné leur vie pour la liberté, ainsi que de ceux qui ont fait de belles actions aux États-Unis. • Honorer les Citoyens Français qui ont accompli des faits marquants aux Etats-Unis, American • Promouvoir l’estime de la culture et de l’héritage français aux États-Unis , • Renforcer l'amitié traditionnelle et la bienveillance entre les peuples américains et français, et à cet effet : ériger ou entretenir des mémoriaux et des monuments, et encourager la recherche historique, manifestations patriotiques publiques et la publication dans les média. Society of • Le Souvenir Français, association nationale placée sous le haut patronage du Président de la République, est né en 1872 en Alsace-Lorraine occupée, et a été fondé en 1887 à Paris par le Professeur Xavier Niessen. L'association compte plus de 300 000 membres en France et dans Le Souvenir plus de 45 pays. • Aux États-Unis, l'American Society of Le Souvenir Francais (Souvenir Français- USA) a été représenté depuis la première guerre mondiale par un Délégué Général, parmi lesquels ont figuré le docteur Jules Pierre, M. Bruno Kaiser, le Colonel Roger Cestac, Christian Bickert, Français, Inc. Mathieu Petitjean, et Jean Lachaud. L’association est présidée depuis le mois de novembre 2020 par Thierry Chaunu. • The American Society of Le Souvenir Français, Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation established in 1993 in NY.
58 L’ American Society of Le Souvenir Français Inc.’s Missions :
• To preserve the memory of the French soldiers, sailors and airmen who gave their lives for freedom, and who are buried in the United States, • To honor French Citizens who did great deeds in the United States, or with a strong connection with American the United States, • To promote esteem for French culture and heritage in the United States and for the American heritage in France, • To strengthen the long-standing traditional bonds of friendship between the American and French Society of peoples, and to this end: erect or maintain memorials and monuments and encourage historical research, public presentations and publications in the media. • Le Souvenir Français, a national association under the high patronage of the President of the Republic, Le Souvenir was born in 1872 in occupied Alsace-Lorraine, and was founded in 1887 in Paris by Professor Xavier Niessen. The association has more than 300,000 members in France and in more than 45 countries. • In the United States, the American Society of Le Souvenir Français (Souvenir Français USA) has been represented since the First World War by a General Delegate, among whom were Dr Jules Pierre, MM. Français, Inc. Bruno Kaiser, Colonel Roger Cestac , Christian Bickert, Mathieu Petitjean, and Jean Lachaud. The association is presided since November 2020 by Thierry Chaunu.
• The American Society of Le Souvenir Français, Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation established in 1993 in NY. Comité de Direction American Society of Le Souvenir Français, Inc.
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