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To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lafayette's last trip to the United States and the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, the Consulate General of France in Boston and The Richard Lounsbery Foundation are launching the 2024 French American Friendship Contest.

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Through the creation of a work, high school students will be called upon to reflect on the very essence of Franco-American relations, in its history and contemporary cultural expressions.

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Open to French learners from American high schools in New England, it will allow three groups of students and their respective teacher to visit France in June 2024. This itinerant journey will lead them in the footsteps of Lafayette, from Paris to Normandy, from where he embarked for New York in 1824 and where, 120 years later, will disembark American troops to liberate France.