For one magic night, the Breakers Beach Club became the "chateau by the sea" of the American Friends of Blérancourt for their annual dinner in Palm Beach.

Franck Laverdin, chairman of the Board, and countess Dorothea de La Houssaye, president of AFB, hosted an international crowd to celebrate 240 years of the Franco-American alliance, the 100th anniversary of the WWI Victory and the tremendous dedication of Anne Morgan and her American lady friends who helped reconstruct Picardy in the aftermath of that terrible war.

To celebrate this unique Museum they were joined by the Consul General de France in Miami, Clément Leclerc, Louise Stephaich, Henry and Carla Darlington, Miles Morgan, Jane Domerich and Peter Hill, the Duchess of Rutland, Phil Burtt, Dale Coudert, AFB founder baroness didi d'Anglejean and John Browne, Elizabeth and Stanley Scott, Mary and Antony Underwood, Barbara Marquesa Viuda de San Damian, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Jay Paul, Fern Tailer, Robin Reardon and Norman Nelson, Michael Kovner and Maria Roach, Irene Goodkind, Helmut Koller and Helga Wagner, Joan Kahn, Barbara Cates and John Loring, Jennifer Garrigues, Peter Behr and Wendy Randall, Patricia Lee and Dr.Bradford Lee., Cookie Donaldson, Marc Meadows, Allola McGraw, and more.