Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 11/26/24 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 11/26/24

🎩0️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ Ambassador Samuel Ducroquet

Meet Samuel Ducroquet, the Ambassador for Sport at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs who is helping to forge closer relations between France and the United States through the sports diplomacy prism.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 7/18/24 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 7/18/24

🎩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.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/15/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/15/21

🏉🎩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.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/12/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/12/21

🎾🎩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.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 8/4/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 8/4/21

🏉🎩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.

🎩0️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ Ambassador Samuel Ducroquet

🎩0️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ Michael Turner

🏉🎩0️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ George H. Jackson

🎾🎩0️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ JJ Jusserand

🏉🎩0️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ William H. Hunt

Mapping the Connections

The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.