By Barry Swackhamer, September 19, 2012
	1. Thomas Jefferson Marker

[Translation using Google Translate (with modifications):
April 13, 1743 At Shadwell Virginia
July 4, 1826 At Monticello Virginia
Symbol of Franco-American friendship United States Ambassador to France 1785-1789 3rd President of the United States 1801-1809 Lead author of the drafting of the American [Declaration of] Independence, July 4, 1776. Admirer of France. He travels and promotes our interests in the United States, our heritage - Architecture, land and culture. Humanist, he shared our values of freedom. With his friend Lafayette, he played a key role

	By Barry Swackhamer, September 19, 2012
	2. Thomas Jefferson Marker

in the creation of the French Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789. 1789-2009 A Bridge To Freedom 220th Anniversary of the French Revolution Bridges of the Heart Foundries Dechaumont Muret
 
Location. 43° 19.815′ N, 3° 11.891′ E. Marker is in Beziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, in Hérault. Marker can be reached from Rampe du Coucher d'Eau. Click for map. This marker is located at the upper end of the Fonseranes Staircase on the Fonserane Visitors Center building. Marker is in this post office area: Beziers, Languedoc-Roussillon 34500, France.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 kilometers of this marker, as the crow flies. Écluses de Fonseranes (about 210 meters away, in a direct line); Ici Naquit Beziers (approx. 1.4 kilometers away); [Gare du Beziers] (approx. 1.8 kilometers away); Hôtel de Ville (approx. 1.8 kilometers away); Pepezuc (approx. 1.9 kilometers away); Les Halles (approx. 1.9 kilometers away); Pierre Paul Riquet (approx. 2 kilometers away); La Chapelle des Recollets (approx. 2 kilometers away). Click for a list of all markers in Beziers.
 
Regarding Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson travel on the Canal du Midi during is journey through Southern France in 1787.
 
Also see . . .  Journey through France and Italy (1787). "On February 28, 1787 the forty-four-year-old Thomas Jefferson left Paris for a three month, twelve-hundred-mile journey to southern France and northern Italy." (Submitted on October 9, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of San Jose, California.)