Marie-Nicole Lemieux, along with Michel Franck, Director General of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, just received the 2020 Samuel de Champlain Cultural Prize awarded by the Cercle France Amériques. This prize annually recognizes two personalities, one Canadian, the other French, each having worked to highlight history and culture, understood in its broadest sense and in all its forms of expression, French in Canada, Canadian in France, and thus to the dissemination of the values ​​that define and unite these two countries.