October Visit of Paris Club

ITINERARY SUMMARY
Paris Academies Rotary Club - Friendship Exchange Visit to Washington, DC
Commemorating  the 225th Anniversary of the Treaty of Paris
October 19 - 24, 2008

SUNDAY, October 19: 7:00pm	WHEELS DOWN WELCOME RECEPTION   Home of Lynn Holec
MONDAY, October 20: 10 :00am -11 :00am	NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART POMPEI AND THE ROMAN VILLA Behind-the-Scenes Tour led by NGA Expositions Architect,  Donna Kirk and Lisa Farrell,  Expositions Artist
1:00pm	ARTIST's STUDIO TOUR  at Lou Stovall's Workshop for Andre Goezu, et al
6:30pm	GOETHE-INSTITUT   Featured speaker - Jean-Pierre Grivois, author, Moi, JSB
7:30pm	WELCOME-- BIENVENUE II -- Heribert Unschtrin, Director, Goethe-Institut, Washington, Bill Dent, Rotary Club of Washington, DC, Jean Ozonder, Rotary Club Paris Academies
TUESDAY, October 21:      10:00am -12:00pm	U.S. CAPITOL TOUR   Matthew Evans,  Landscape Architect of the Capitol
12:00p - 2:00pm	LUNCH   U.S. CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY - COMMEMORATING THE 225TH  ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATY OF PARIS Speaker:   Dr. Joan Ridder Challinor, Chair, National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Treaty of Paris;  Introduced by Donald R. Kennon, USCHS Chief Historian
2:20pm - 3:30pm	US STATE Department - Diplomatic Reception Room, Fine Arts tour
5:00pm - 7:00 pm	EMBASSY OF FRANCE Reception -  Rotary and the French American Friendship
WEDNESDAY, October 22: 10:00am -11:00am	NATIONAL ARCHIVES - Treaty of Paris Exhibit:  1783:  Subject or Citizen?
12:15pm - 1:30pm	DC ROTARY CLUB       FRENCH-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP LUNCHEON
3:30pm - 4:30pm	NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY-- Tour by Dr. Anne Goodyear, Assoc. Curator of Prints
6:30pm	ALLIANCE FRANCAISE de WASHINGTON   Featured speaker, Jean-Louis Boursin,  President, Cours de civilisation francaise de la Sorbonne, Author, Les Maths pour les nuls
THURSDAY, October 23:   9:00am	DEPART WASHINGTON, DC BY BUS leaving from the University Club for Annapolis
10:00am - 11:45am	ANNAPOLIS TOUR    In coordination with the Annapolis Rotary Club MARYLAND STATE HOUSE  (site of Treaty of Paris ratification) - Tour
12:30pm - 2:00pm	LUNCH     ANNAPOLIS ROTARY CLUB -- Annapolis Yacht Club
2:00pm	Walk around historic Annapolis -- Tour U.S. Naval Academy grounds, St. Johns College Cemetery  where French soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War are buried, etc.
4:15pm	Depart Annapolis by BUS from the City Dock and drive back to DC to the National Press Club
6:00pm - 8:00  pm	PEN/FAULKNER FOUNDATION    Presenting Contemporary French Authors at the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - Reception sponsored by The Marx Group 6:30pm  Delphine de Vigan - Author,  No et moi, Winner, 2008 Prix des Libraires,  Laureate of the 2008 Prix Litteraire du Rotary 7:10pm Christian Galantaris - Author, Manuel de Bibliophilie, Verlaine, Rimbaud,  Mallarme; catalogue raisonne, celebrated expert on ancient and rare books
FRIDAY, October 24: 9:30am	WHITE HOUSE Tour  -   INVITATION ONLY
11:30am	US COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS TOUR with the Hon. Lawrence S. Margolis on half block North of White House on Lafayette Square
6:30pm	EMBASSY OF FRANCE GALA in Honor of Rotary International and Franco-American Friendship  at Ambassador Vimont’s Residence-- INVITATION ONLY
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