On the occasion of celebration of 100 years of Norwegian-French educational cooperation, yesterday, on September 24, 2018, Queen Sonja visited Pierre Corneille high school in Rouen, France. Queen Sonja of Norway met with former and current pupils in a conversation together with French first lady Brigitte Macron and Norwegian ambassador to France Rolf Einar Fife. Queen Sonja and Brigitte Macron attended an outdoor ceremony at the school and a luncheon at Rouen City Hall. To ensure an educational cooperation and to establish of a Norwegian section at the school were part of a peace-building measure at the end of World War I. |