Groupe de Lecture
Meeting on the first Thursday of each month, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, this group has a lot of fun sipping wine, tasting cheese and crackers and taking turns reading out loud in French. Enjoy hearing and sharing the richness of the French language. The title of the current selection is “La Tournée D’Automne”. La […]
PORTES OUVERTES: Scrabble, anyone?
Evelyne Purdy will hold a games/conversation “en Français” session on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, from 1 to 2:30pm at the Alliance Française Center in Southbury. Also take time to browse our extensive library. The Center is located at 1 Pomperaug Office Park, Suite 301, Southbury. Call us at 203-707-0710 to let […]
Parlons Francais
Parlons Français The Thursday evening Parlons Français Back to Basics meets tonight at the Brookfield Library. Designed for those who have studied French in the past and just want a refresher. Led by Colin Harrison, students use the textbook “Ultimate French – Beginner-Intermediate”. We meet in one of the corners upstairs in the Main Library […]
Cafe Conversations
Café Conversations is a great way to practice, improve and/or help you feel more comfortable speaking French with friendly francophones and francophiles who enjoy speaking French in an informal setting. The group meets two Saturdays a month from 10:30 to 12:30 (be sure to check this calendar often). Have a cup of coffee and meet/greet […]
“How The French Saved America”
Southbury Public Library 100 Poverty Rd., Southbury, CT, United StatesAmericans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in this illuminating new history, Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. How The French Saved America is about French aid to the Americans during the American Revolution. This narrative history vividly captures the individual characters of our […]
