French ambassador to the United States Ambassador Pierre Vimont saw the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and toured sites in Vermont as part of the effort to mark the recent enactment of legislation that created the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail.
Ambassador Vimont is traveling through New England to promote France and its historical ties to the United States.
He stopped in Vermont to join the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Lake Champlain by the 17th century French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who also founded Quebec City in Canada.
The trail commemorates the route a combined French and American force traveled from Rhode Island to Yorktown, Virginia, where they defeated the British in 1781.
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