Aboard the Hermione, a former French warship bearing a message of peace
By France 24
11 May 2018 |
9:59 am
The Hermione is a 47-metre-high, 65-metre-long replica of the frigate that left French waters in 1780, taking the young Marquis de Lafayette to America where he would help George Washington defeat the British in the War of Independence.
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