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.

🎩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.