Washington DC: Naming a Bridge in Honor of Lauzun's Legion
and Restoring Statues in Lafayette Square
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The French navy band led the procession into Rose Park in Georgetown, DC
for the ceremony renaming the P Street Bridge as Lauzun's Legion Bridge.
Dr. Wilton Dillon (Smithsonian Inst) intoduces French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte.
Nearby is a painting of the fording the Potomac River in Georgetown.
A related painting, by David Wagner, is
At the Ferry Crossing at Georgetown VA Oct 19, 1781
See his
Gallery of W3R Illustrations.
Ambassador Levite addresses the audience.
Seated behind Ambassador Levite are representatives of the
DC Daughters of the American Revolution, Dr. Jacques Bossiere (Chair, W3R-US),
and DC Children of the American Revolution
Ambassador Levite, Mrs. Betty-Jane Gerber (W3R-DC), and
Dr. Bossiere prepare to lay a wreath at the statue
of Gen. Lafayette in Lafayette Park in Washington DC.
Aquanetta Anderson (W3R-DC), Ambassador Levite, and Dr. Bossiere
laying a wreath at the statue of Gen. Rochambeau in Lafayette Park.