The Washington Regional Chapter organizes a variety of cultural and social events for its members throughout the year in order to raise funds for restorations projects that were voted by the FHS Board members.

Bobbie Brewster is the current Washington Regional Chapter Chairman. For further information or to learn more about Membership, please contact: benjamin@frenchheritagesociety.org

Photos: Jeannie Rutherfoord with students, chapter grants to the Château de Tholet, the Hermione and the Hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris.

Grants

• Chartres Cathedral, France
• Hôtel de Talleyrand, Paris
• Château de Thoiry, France
• Abbaye de Fontefroide, France
• Meridian House, Washington, D.C.
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Salon Doré, Washington, D.C.
• Decatur House and Octagon House, Washington, D.C.
• The houses of Sainte Geneviève, MO
• Orangerie du Parc de Bagatalle, France, in honor of Simone Monneron
• Hôtel de la Monnaie, France

Past Highlights

• Annual dinner at the French Ambassador’s residence
• Grand Châteaux and their Gardens in the Landscape of Greater Paris Today, by Stéphanie Celle French State Architect and Urbanist, Conservator of National Monuments
• Various lectures about the French culture
• Annual conference with a distinguished speaker
• Garden parties in Spring or tour to an historic property in the Virginia or Maryland countryside to end the season
• Private tours of museums for special exhibitions of French masterpieces