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Note the change of date: Wednesday April 17
Walking Club -
Club de marche
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Wednesday April 10
Apéros Amis
6:30pm|Bistro V
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Friday April 12
Café Franco-Américain
9:30am|Résidence privée
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Currently seeking native French speakers.
Please contact
Susan Benthall at
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Tuesday April 16
Reed Lecture
Mme de Sévigné la grande dame épistolaire
1:30pm|Byram Library
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Tuesday April 16
French Cinémathèque with Focus on French Cinema
Bay of Angels
7:30pm|Avon
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Bay of Angels - Baie des anges (1963)
by Jacques Demy
This precisely wrought, emotionally penetrating romantic drama from
Jacques Demy, set largely in the casinos of Nice, is a visually lovely but darkly realistic investigation into love and obsession. A bottle-blonde Jeanne Moreau is at her blithe best as a gorgeous gambling addict, and Claude Mann is the bank clerk drawn into her risky world. Featuring a mesmerizing score by Michel Legrand, Bay of Angels is among Demy's most somber works.
Advanced tickets recommended:
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Wednesday April 17
9:30am|Pain Quotidien
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Rejoignez-nous autour d'un café au Pain Quotidien, 382 Greenwich Avenue, pour une conversation en toute décontraction.
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Come join us at Le Pain Quotidien, 382 Greenwich Avenue, enjoy a coffee and engage in a fun conversation in a relax atmosphere.
Conversation Group open to all!
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New date - Wednesday April 17
Walking Club
Club de marche
11am|Tod's Point
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Thursday April 18
Proust Group
5pm|Byram Library
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Thursday April 18
C.Webber Talk-Proust Duchess
7:00pm|Byram Library
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Special Event following the Proust Group
Caroline Webber - Author Talk & Book Signing
Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
Caroline Weber is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, where she specializes in the literature and history of the French ancien régime, Enlightenment, and Revolution, and teaches courses on 17th-century drama, 18th-century fiction and philosophy, Proust, Dada, and Surrealism, along with thematic comparative and survey courses such as Literature and Justice, Jealousy in French Literature, and Myths of Oedipus.
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