Oui, c’est vrai! MIM chooses France as 2024 honored country
A firefighter adjusts the French flag on the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Aug. 25, 2019. France will be the honored country at the Memphis in May International Festival for the second time. (Michel Spingler/AP file)
The choice is the first by the Greater Memphis Chamber. France was last honored in 1990 by Memphis In May.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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