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 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,...
