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In view of fostering a constructive transatlantic dialogue, the goal of the Cercle d’Etude et d’Amitié France USA is to promote both friendship and mutual understanding between the French and American peoples, as well as to exchange opinions on history, literature, science and the environment
There is no place for proselytism or political confrontation.
The Cercle d'Etude et d'Amitié France-USA (the France USA Study and Friendship Circle) works along two mains lines :
- creating close relationships between the American community and the French population,
- studying and meeting around themes connected with the aforementioned objectives.
The Circle was officially created in Clermont-Ferrand on Wednesday April 6, 2005 during a meeting presided over by Mrs Angie BRYAN, US Consul in Lyon.
Postal adress :
Cercle d'Etude et d'Amitié France-USA
109, rue Bernard Maître
63110 Beaumont - France
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Our Initiative
Depending on the day, we all remember what we were doing the day that the troops stormed Normandy , or the day that JFK was assassinated.
Also, we remember what we were doing on September 11, 2001 when the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed. In the period that followed, two sides of our culture collided. Jean-Marie Colombani wrote in le Monde:
“In this tragic moment where the words are so scarce to say the shock that one feels, the first thing which comes to mind is this one: W e all are American! We all are New Yorkers, as surely as John Kennedy declared himself, in 1963 in Berlin , a Berlinois. How not to feel ourselves indeed, as in the most serious moments of our history, deeply bound with these people and this country, the United States, to which we are so close and to which we owe freedom, and thus our support.”
A few weeks later, L’Effroyable Imposture (The Apalling Fraud) by Thierry Meyssan was published. This title, a somber face of the French anti-Americanism, was to become a best seller in France . It opened the door to a phase of denial where the victim was portrayed as the conspirator, guilty to have been attacked and not justified in their defense
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