AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BLERANCOURT FETE

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NEW YORK SOCIETY

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Anne Dopffer With Kalita Doolin, Alan Governar

And Sonja Tremont Morgan

Recently the American Friends of Blérancourt, a non–profit that supports the expansion and gardens of the Franco‐American Museum, Chateau de Blérancourt in Picardy, France, founded by Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan. Late Saturday afternoon, November 10th, high atop the Trump World Tower and overlooking the United Nations, Francine du Plessix Gray, author of “The Queen’s Lover,” read excerpts from her book and signed copies in the private home of art collectors Robin Cofer and Dominick D’Alleva. Guests included Baroness Bernard d’Anglejan‐Chatillon, Founder of the American Friends of Blerancourt, Eugenie Anglès, President of AFB, Sonja Tremont Morgan, Miles Morgan, and Mary Jane Pool.

A private social at the residence of the acclaimed interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux, acknowledged the benefactors and patrons of the gala. Guests were privy to a tour of this exquisitely designed home.

The annual gala was set at the magnificent Harold Pratt House and presented The Anne Morgan Award of Excellence posthumously to Mary Young, an officer and director of the Florence Gould Foundation from inception, and Officer in the French Legion of Honor, among other accolades. Guests clinked flutes filled with Paul Goerg champagne courtesy of Mario Rinaldi, and dined on sumptuous fare, including a petit filet and tender veal by Daniel Boulud’s Feast & Fetes. Guests also enjoyed a fascinating talk on French-American relations and the organization of the museum by Harvard Historian Robert Darnton. Notables included Bertrand Lortholary, Consul General of France in New York, Hal Witt and Olivia Flatto of the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet, Elizabeth Stribling, President of the French Heritage Society, John Young, husband of Mary Young, Nancy and Jerry Gehman, Hunt Slonem, Sandra Jones, Jay Paul, Pilar and Juan Pablo Molyneux, Kathleen Springhorn, Robert and Kate Wickham, Sarah and Chips Page, Carla and Henry Darlington, Jean Astrop and Anne Dopffer, curator of Franco-American Museum.



Photo Courtesy Of: Katherine Kostreva