Download or read book Frenchwoman's Impressions of America written by comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a trip designed to raise funds for the ""American Committee for Devastated France,"" Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Jacqueline arrived in the United States in 1918. Acting in a post-World War I diplomatic capacity, the sisters traveled the country over a period of six months to give fund-raising speeches. Their travels taking them from New York, to St. Louis, to San Francisco, and the Puget Sound, before returning east to Washington, D.C.