The French Heritage Society Philadelphia Chapter held its traditional Bastille Day Party at the Philadelphia  Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill on Sunday, July 14, 2024.  The event featured French wine, live music and song and a seated dinner. The French Heritage Society and its generous supporters have helped preserve historic French architecture in France and the United States for nearly 40 years. They help organize educational exchanges between the U.S. and France and promote French-American friendship.

Event proceeds will support restoration grants selected by the FHS Philadelphia Chapter. For 2024, the Philadelphia Chapter has pledged to raise $11,000 for restoration grants. In addition to the bas relief at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, future recipients will include the Eglise Notre Dame de Carentan and Château de Sevigny

1. Baird Standish and Phyllis Chapell entertained with Cabaret Music throughout the dinner

2. Bastille  Day Dinner committee members gathered for a photo during the cocktail reception

3. Gaëlle Dyèvre chatted with Eileen Goldberg

4. Michael and Anne Marie Mendlow, Chapter Co-chair Julia Ward and James Wistar

5. Georgia Shafia and Anne Semenol

6. Melinda Immerman Meigs, Henry Meigs and Dinner Co-Chair Anne Munch Jensen

7. These committee members had fun at the cocktail reception

8. John and Judith Benner attended the  Bastille Day Dinner

9. Michele Haines, Anne  Munch Jensen, Robin and Bruce Herndon, Georgia Shafia and Julia Ward gathered for a photo during cocktails

10. Anne Standish and Susan Katzin chatted with Anne Eisenhower during the cocktail reception

11.  Caroline Myer, Will Standish, Melinda Immerman Meigs, Henry Meigs and Oliver Meigs toasted the cocktail reception

12. Co-chair Julia Ward welcomed Billy O’Connor and George McNeely to the party