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    What château close to Compiègne is home to the centre for Franco-American friendship and collaboration and has a statue of George Washington in front of its main building?

    Question #90776. Asked by Flem-ish. (Jan 05 08 1:38 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		The Château de Blérancourt, an immensely influential design by Salomon de Brosse, houses the National Museum of French-American Friendship and Cooperation, founded by Anne Morgan, daughter of the financier J. Pierpont Morgan.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A9rancourt


    http://xenophongroup.com/mcjoynt/bleran.htm

    Jan 05 08, 2:35 PM
    Flem-ish

    		Quite right. The statue of George Washington is by a famous sculptor who also did Voltaire and some other luminaries of
    the Enlightment and of the first decades of American History. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/feature-2003-06.html
    Those Lips, Those Eyes... Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment

    Jan 05 08, 3:32 PM

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