Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) is a 1980 American animated mystery comedy film based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. It is the fourth full-length feature film in the Peanuts series. Directed by Bill Melendez from a screenplay by Schulz, it stars the voices of Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Annalisa Bortolin, and Laura Planting. The film follows Charlie Brown and his friends as they travel to France as foreign exchange students, while simultaneously learning about a mysterious letter sent by the niece of a local baron.
At Charlie Brown's school, Linus Van Pelt introduces to his class two French students, Babette and Jacques, who will be spending two weeks there to get accustomed to the United States. In exchange, Charlie Brown and Linus are chosen to visit France. Charlie Brown heads home and invites Snoopy and Woodstock to go with him. He gets a call from Peppermint Patty, who tells him that she and Marcie were also chosen to go to France as a student exchange. Charlie Brown also gets a letter from France, but cannot read it because it is written in French. He is not very positive about the trip because of the letter he got, but Marcie, who has been studying French, translates the letter, explaining that Charlie Brown has been invited to stay at the Château du Mal Voisin (House of the Bad Neighbor). Charlie Brown cannot understand why someone in France would invite him to their home, let alone know who he is.
The group arrive first in London and travel across the English Channel to France via hovercraft. Upon their arrival, they rent a Citroën 2CV, which is driven by Snoopy as the children are too young to drive. Peppermint Patty and Marcie go to stay at a farm in Morville-sur-Andelle, where they meet a local boy named Pierre. Marcie and Pierre develop a mutual attraction between them, but Peppermint Patty convinces herself that Pierre likes her. In Le Héron, Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock camp outside the chateau, which is owned by a reclusive baron. His niece, Violette Honfleur, frequently leaves Charlie Brown and Linus food.
Linus eventually enters the chateau's attic and learns from Violette that Charlie Brown's grandfather, Silas, had served in the United States Army, and helped them during World War II. The baron returns home and Violette tries hiding Linus, but she inadvertently starts a fire in the attic. Charlie Brown runs to get Peppermint Patty and Marcie and Pierre summons the fire department, while Snoopy and Woodstock get an old fashioned fire hose from a shed. The children rescue Linus and Violette while Snoopy uses the hose to keep the fire under control until the fire department arrives.
Thankful for the chateau's rescue, the baron allows the gang inside and Charlie Brown learns the truth behind the mysterious letter he received from Violette: one of the villagers toured the United States when he got a haircut from Charlie Brown's father, whereupon Violette was able to find Silas's grandson. Charlie Brown later bids Violette and Pierre goodbye as he, Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie leave to see more of the French countryside.
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