🎩0️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ Michael Turner
Meet Michael Turner, Counselor for Cultural Affairs at U.S. Embassy France (2022-present) who has taken great strides in using sports to connect the United States and France over the past two years.
🏉🎩0️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ George H. Jackson
Meet George H. Jackson, the U.S. consul who helped lay La Rochelle’s rugby foundations in the early twentieth century.
🎾🎩0️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ JJ Jusserand
Meet JJ Jusserand, the French Ambassador to the United States who strengthened Franco-American relations as part of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s famed “Tennis Cabinet” in the early 20th century.
🏉🎩0️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ William H. Hunt
Meet William H. Hunt, the U.S. Consul at St. Étienne from 1907 until 1927 who became a founding figure of the city’s rugby scene.