Pour l'amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
« Le Traité d’Amitié et de Commerce qui consacra l’indépendance américaine en conférant la qualité de belligérants aux Insurgés, qui fit le premier entrer la République dans le concert des Nations – par quoi la France donna sa date de naissance internationale à l’État américain » (L-P. MAY)
John Eager Howard (1752-1827) was George Washington's chief of staff and Maryland's most distinguished Revolutionary War hero.
This statue served as a symbol of St. Louis until the completion of the Gateway Arch in 1965
Fair Park constitue aujourd'hui le plus grand ensemble architectural Art Déco des États-Unis. Trois sculpteurs français participèrent à sa décoration.
Well-attended exhibitions in Paris in 1855 and 1867 helped to spread Second Empire style to England and then the United States
Popularized in the US by architect Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France.
In 1925 the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris further promoted the popularity of Art Deco style architecture
The popularity of this style was advanced by the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893
Known as the French Eclectic style, French Provincial or French Chateau, the style was fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s.
The French Norman style is modeled after the rural vernacular architecture of the French countryside.
The style itself was imported directly from France
Patterned after the designs of monumental French chateaus of the 16th century
For the first century of its existence, Detroit was unabashedly French
This piece examines the influence of French military theory and doctrine on the U.S. Army in the years during and after the War of 1812
Vanderbilt’s 250-room French Renaissance chateau is a true marvel
Toutes les institutions spécialisées dans lesquelles les ingénieurs d’outre-Atlantique peuvent être instruits à l’époque s’inspirent ouvertement et explicitement des structures et des méthodes d’enseignement des écoles françaises.
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