Whom You Know: NIGHTLIGHT: CELEBRATING GASCONY FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY’S 3rd GALA DINNER DANCE HONORS LEGENDS OF GASCONY: CHEF ARIANE DAGUIN

Friday, December 3, 2010

NIGHTLIGHT: CELEBRATING GASCONY FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY’S 3rd GALA DINNER DANCE HONORS LEGENDS OF GASCONY: CHEF ARIANE DAGUIN

The French Heritage Society had their third annual Black Tie Gala at the Metropolitan Club on 11/16/2010. It was a joyous affair. This year, FHS honored Chef Ariane Daguin, the woman who brought fois gras to the States. As FHS Board member and Wine consultant George Sape said when he introduced her, “There is not a chef on the East Coast, three star, two star, one star or wanna be, who doesn’t know her.” Co-Chairmen of the Gala were CeCe Black, Margo Langenberg and our friend Jean Shafiroff whom we met at this event. Not only did Jean have the best dress of the night but also she has one of the biggest hearts.

After cocktails and hor d’œuvres in the jam packed foyer, guests made their entrance into the ballroom under a canopy of swords provided by three Muskeeters. The Bob Hardwick Sound had guests dancing even before they went to their tables. Before the first course, the musketeers took over the dance floor to give a demonstration of the art of fencing.

The speeches, such as they were, were brief. Elizabeth Stribling, Chairman of the FHS Board, welcomed everyone. She explained Gascony is featured in novels, food and wine. Comte Denis de Kergorlay, FHS President said to mark your calendars for the 30^th Anniversary celebration.

This year’s Gala honored the region of Gascony, a precursor to the 30th Anniversary, which the Society will celebrate with a sensational trip to the Gascon region in the Southwest of France. It will include a cultural and culinary trip through Gascony. The celebration will culminate in a spectacular Gala Dinner, Ball and a fireworks finale at the legendary Château de Fontainebleau on October 13, 2012.

Peachy Deegan was pleased to see and meet:

Mover and Shaker Sharon Bush

Chris Meigher Star Publisher

Grace Meigher

Jean Shafiroff, Best Dress of the night: one shoulder fuschia Victor de Souza
Guy Robinson the fabulous hockey player from Yale, we hope you saw our interview with Howard Baldwin yesterday
Elizabeth Stribling

Katlean de Monchy, great hair

Barbara Tober, great necklace, fabulous personality

Ann Rapp, great jewelry & quite cool to hang out with Chris and Grace

George Sape

Celine Legros

Gurnee Hart

Meri Horn

Max Greenberg

Nancy Whitehall-Duncan

Enid Hyde, star of Washington DC

Harriet Ross, great velvet collar

Max Anderson

Alexandra Lauvaux

Truda Jewett

Marc de Gontanbiron

Countess Elizabeth Kergornay

Aude de Thuin

Suzette Smith, great red dress!

Bill Bartholomay

Barbara de Portago, gorgeous drop earrings!

Coralie Charriol, great dress by Carlos Miele

Michelle Gerber Klein, great look by YSL from the Russian collection late '70s

Patricia Shiah, great pearls

Jason Grant, we hope your cold went away!

Roger Webster (thank you for the French kiss on the CHEEK, both!)

The menu was a collaboration between Ariane Daguin and George Sape.

There were 220 guests. The money raised will further the mission of FHS to protect the French architectural legacy both in France and the United States with particular emphasis on preservation and education. In its 28 years, the Society has grown to 13 Chapters across the United States and one in Paris. FHS has contributed to over 460 restoration grants and provided more than 18 million dollars, including matching funds, to projects in virtually every department in France and to properties in the United States that reflect France’s historic influence. The Society also fosters long-established French-American relationships in two ways. One, it organizes trans-Atlantic student internship opportunities and two, it offers its’ members enriching cultural trips in France and the U.S.

Among the guests: The Honorable Phillippe Lalliot, Consul General of France in New York and Mrs

Laurence Folliot Lalliot, Irene Aitken and Konrad Keesee, Barbara Bancroft, Giles Bensimon,

Louis Black, Frances and William Bruder, Sharon Bush and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Zita

Davisson, Barbara de Portago, Diandra Douglas, Kate Edmund and Alex Donner, Michèle Gerber

Klein, Yaz and Valentin Hernandez, Cheri Kaufman and William Sclight, Joy Marks and Donald

Venezia, Sandra McConnell and Chris Obetz, Grace and Chris Meigher, Alexis and Spenser

Morgan, Anka Palitz, Laura Pels and Jim McNabb, Ann Rapp and Roy Kean, Jeri Sape, Martin

Shafiroff, Patricia and Robert Shiah, Elizabeth (Mimi) Stafford and Count Nicholas Wenckhein,

Barbara and Peter Regna, Guy Robinson, William Tanzi, Barbara and Donald Tober, Victoria and

Frank Wyman, Marianne and John Wyman, Isabelle Orliac, Comte Marc de Gontaut Biron,

Bettina Zilkha.

A fabulous job by Webster Light Grant once again

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