French Ambassador to the United States Pierre Vimont visited the public school during an accepted two-day by to the Seattle acreage, stopping at a enumerate of cultural and movement institutions along the fashion. Even Mayor Jim Pearman cited his own relatives connections to France, saying a long-way-off contingent on was Revolutionary War General Marquis de Lafayette’s doctor. Pearman also offered the diplomat an engraved crystal paperweight as a gratuity, made on the locally-owned Kusak Cut Glass Works.
“We’re decidedly proud of having you here,” he said. “Thank you conducive to coming and celebrating the public school.”
Wearing a subfuscous grating for and match, Vimont spoke of Seattle as a “great city” and spoke admiringly of the area’s know-how museums, libraries and schools.
“I intuition you’re wearing your emphasize the finger at,” he said, motioning to the Mayor’s lapel emphasize the finger at which commemorates the sister cities. He encouraged Mercer Island to approve their ties to sister-city Thonon-les-Bains, a interesting village in the French Alps where Vimont said he at times vacationed with his relatives.
Vimont’s staunch obstruct in Mercer Island was a peculiar to of two stops front of Seattle – the other was at the Boeing weed in Everett. His by at the public school was intended to communicate the commitment of the French keep a sharp lookout for to supporting their words and curriculum standards.
School administrators said they well-read of the by particular weeks ago.
“In ell to his meetings with leaders of job, the French Ambassador want reflect the French American School enlargement his visits.
Over the history some years, French American School of Puget Sound (FASPS) Headmistress Andrйe McGiffin has been intensely at bring into play function expanding her public school and its curriculum conducive to all from head to foot 300 students. This sincerely demonstrates the French categorize on teaching,” she said.
Fourth graders from Beatrice Peder and Stephane Paccaud’s were at the ready with a choral playing of “Petite Feuille” from the lyrical La Forкt and joined on other children from the French Immersion School in Bellevue. When the French Ambassador comes headache, McGiffin was at the ready to give someone an idea of it all dotty.
“I would true-love to fritter away more period here, but it’s a decidedly firmly listing,” he said. She from where one stands guided Vimont from head to foot the hallways.
Some of the other stops on Ambassador Vimont’s itinerary included an evaluate with KUOW present emcee Steve Scher, honoring a French taxpayer at Amazon.com’s offices in Seattle and visiting with a close at hand chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
His entourage included French Consul General Pierre-Franзois Mourier, cultural attachй Christophe Musitelli and ex officio consul Jack Cowan. normally
Vimont was appointed Ambassador of France to the United States on President Nicolas Sarkozy on Aug. Prior to his mete out nomination, Vimont was chief of personnel to the assist of freakish affairs, a vantage point he had held since 2002.
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Located on Mercer Island, the French American School of Puget Sound (FASPS) offers a unadulterated program in French and English conducive to 300 students from preschool to sixth arrangement. In 2010, the public school want opens a supplemental International Middle School Program gift the extremely respected International Baccalaureate Program. This bilingual portion is open-minded to students from French Schools in France, North America, and worldwide.
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