by Alliance Française | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
I am sure that if you are French or British, you do know!! What a splendid win by Bradley Wiggins, le vainqueur du Tour ( the winner) who wore le maillot jaune ( yellow jersey) for 14 étapes ( stages) and a fantastic display by his team right through Le Tour, without...
by Alliance Française | Jul 14, 2012 | Blog
Do you know what 14th July stands for? It is a commemoration of the storming of the Bastille (la prise de la Bastille) which happened on 14th July 1789, during the French revolution (la révolution française). It was a very important symbol, even if only seven...
by Alliance Française | Jul 8, 2012 | Blog
Have you ever heard of ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ (la dame à la licorne)?It is a series of tapestries (tapisseries) from the late 15th century, considered to be one of the greatest works of art from the Middle Ages. You can now see it in Cluny Museum in...
by Alliance Française | Jul 1, 2012 | Blog
Audrey and her students have recently had a game of pétanque in Queensquare. If you have never played, you might want to give it a try on your next holidays in France. It is played with metal balls (boules) and a smaller wooden one (le cochonnet). The aim is to...
by Alliance Française | Jun 23, 2012 | Blog
La fête de la musique started on 21st June 1982, it was promoted by Jack Lang who was then Minister of culture ( ministre de la culture) under the president of France ( le président de la France ), François Mitterrand.Here is a link to a video produced by l’INA...
by Alliance Française | Jun 17, 2012 | Blog
C’est la fête des pères! Time to make a cake perhaps…. Read the poem below about a cake written by Alice, a student in Gwen’ s French tuition class. She started with a tiny bit of French and this is what she could write after a few months of French...
by Alliance Française | Jun 10, 2012 | Blog
The final ( la finale) is between Nadal and Djokovic under rather grey skies in Paris.Why are the stadium and the tournament called Roland Garros? Roland Garros, who lived at the beginning of the 20th century, was more of a football player than a tennis man although...
by Alliance Française | Jun 3, 2012 | Blog
La fête des mères is a tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks and appeared in England in the 15th century when it was called Mothering Sunday, it became official in the UK in 1914. It started being mentioned in France in the early 20th century but officially,...
by Alliance Française | May 27, 2012 | Blog
The jury ( le jury) du Festival de Cannes chose Michael Haneke’ s latest film, Amour to receive La Palme d’Or. The main actors of Amour are French: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, which is rather nice as no French film and no French actors were...
by Alliance Française | May 20, 2012 | Blog
Anne, French tutor and qualified guide, is taking a group of students having French tuition with Alliance Française around Bristol on 24th May.La visite guidée will be entirely in French and will enable students to discover Bristol through its architecture, its...
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