PERSHING TO BE GUEST OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT
Paris, France (JFK+50) Readers of the New York Tribune of September 19, 1921 learned that the French government had requested General John J. Pershing be its guest while he is in France.
The Chief of Staff of the United States Army is scheduled to be in the country next week "to place the Medal of Honor, granted by the U.S. Congress, on the tomb of the unknown soldier of France."
The General will be staying in a suite at the Hotel Grillon which has been used by the American Peace Commission as its headquarters.
Pershing will be welcomed at Harve next week by Marshall Frunchet d 'Esperay*.
*Louis Felix Marie Francois Frunchet d'Esperay (1856-1942) was born in French Algeria & was corps commander in WWI. He conducted a successful military campaign in Macedonia.
SOURCE
"France to Honor Pershing," The New York Tribune, September 20, 1921, www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
