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French town rooting for favorite Son
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Now we know why Kerry is so hot after France. Seems like he has a home there. Heck, he's just a common guy who has an estate in France. I guess
it's no wonder why he wants to cozy up to the French and the UN. he is an internationalist after all.
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ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France � Imagine the scene here a year from now if this genteel village enters U.S. history.
On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir.
Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde � a former candidate for the French presidency � Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis.
Speaking fluent French, Kerry greets crowds filling narrow lanes and a town plaza festooned with flags of both nations. Kerry announces that he has chosen this community of 2,000, a cherished refuge of his globe-trotting family since 1923, to symbolize the rapprochement of the United States and France � indeed, Europe � after years of transatlantic tension.
With less than three months to go before the election, relatives and friends of the family who remember Kerry from periodic youthful visits are rooting for him.
..........The Forbes estate became a local institution. James Forbes and his wife, Margaret Winthrop � a descendant of the first governor of Massachusetts � employed people from St. Briac to keep the vast grounds, tend the stables and cars, and help a family that grew to 11 children.
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ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France � Imagine the scene here a year from now if this genteel village enters U.S. history.
On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir.
Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde � a former candidate for the French presidency � Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis.
Speaking fluent French, Kerry greets crowds filling narrow lanes and a town plaza festooned with flags of both nations. Kerry announces that he has chosen this community of 2,000, a cherished refuge of his globe-trotting family since 1923, to symbolize the rapprochement of the United States and France � indeed, Europe � after years of transatlantic tension.
With less than three months to go before the election, relatives and friends of the family who remember Kerry from periodic youthful visits are rooting for him.
..........The Forbes estate became a local institution. James Forbes and his wife, Margaret Winthrop � a descendant of the first governor of Massachusetts � employed people from St. Briac to keep the vast grounds, tend the stables and cars, and help a family that grew to 11 children.
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