by Alliance Française | May 22, 2016 | Blog
Le Festival de Cannes which was called until 2002 Le Festival International du Film drew, yet again, lots of stars who climbed the famous stairs ( les marches ) on the red carpet ( le tapis rouge). The festival started in 1946 and La Palme d’Or was introduced in...
by Alliance Française | May 15, 2016 | Blog
The exhibition will be shown for a few months but here is an invitation at:Millennium Square Big Screenon Thursday 19th May 6-7pmFreeBerlingots and photos with Alliance Française de BristolCome and discover competition winning photos from all around the world on the...
by Alliance Française | May 8, 2016 | Blog
Martine’s French class certainly do, Maureen wrote a little story using quite a few: jolie comme un cœur: as pretty as a picture connaître un endroit comme sa poche: to know somewhere like the back of one’s hand gai comme un pinson: as happy as a lark...
by Alliance Française | May 1, 2016 | Blog
This time, Véronique, French teacher with the Alliance Française de Bath, has chosen Au bonheur des dames by Emile Zola. The book was published in 1883 and is part of the great saga of the Rougon-Macquart which takes us through the 2nd Empire with Napoleon the 3rd and...
by Alliance Française | Apr 24, 2016 | Blog
Alliance Française de Bath is running its cineclub next Friday. They are showing Quai d’Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier with Thierry Lhermite as Alexandre Taillard de Worms, French minister of Foreign Affairs ( ministre des Affaires Etrangères), who tends to create...
by Alliance Française | Apr 17, 2016 | Blog
Joël Binet will take us through a journey in Provence discovering how writers, painters, musicians and singers were inspired by this beautiful region. The list is long with Nîmes born Alphonse Daudet and Les lettres de mon moulin, which he actually wrote in Clamart, a...
by Alliance Française | Apr 10, 2016 | Blog
Have you been coming to our own French drama shows over the last few years? If not, you might have missed the time Gérard Depardieu was tried ( a été traduit devant un tribunal) to see whether he could remain French,or the time Antoine and Cléopâtre disclosed ( ont...
by Alliance Française | Apr 3, 2016 | Blog
Why is 1st April, April’s fools day? In France we are not absolutely sure as there are several explanations but the most popular one takes it back to the 16th century when le roi Charles IX decided that the year should not start on 1st April anymore but on 1st...
by Alliance Française | Mar 27, 2016 | Blog
The weather was so fantastic in Bristol on good Friday ( le vendredi saint) that a lot of us spent most of the day doing some gardening ( faire du jardinage).Pat, one of Martine’s students in her Tuesday night French class, who is a landscape gardener (...
by Alliance Française | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog
France is divided into many different layers, so much so that it is called le mille feuilles, for those of you who like going into French pâtisseries, you will know this delicious looking cake which is made of lots of layers of puff pastry with crème pâtissière in...
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