by Alliance Française | Oct 6, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Workshops
Come to our first café artistique in Clifton: Our art historian Fabienne will talk about Leonardo da Vinci’s special relationship with France and the current Paris Exhibition. Join us for this opportunity to discover or rediscover famous art, and learn some...
by Alliance Française | Sep 29, 2019 | Announcements, Blog
Our teacher and chef Isabelle has written about these stars of Autumn Walnuts, les noix, represent for me one of the most iconic autumn fruits. They are from a large family called les fruits à coque which consist of les amandes, les noisettes, les noix de pécan, les...
by Alliance Française | Sep 2, 2019 | Announcements, Events
Come and join us for this wonderful opportunity to meet Karfa Diallo, French/Senegalese writer and listen to him talking about his research about the slave trade in Bordeaux. Please note this event will be conducted in French only. Audience questions welcome. There...
by Alliance Française | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog
If you are learning French with Alliance Française de Bristol and Bath, you will learn to complain and argue as well as politely converse. See the excellent monologue which Tanya, perfecting her French in Audrey’s class, has written to complain about a noisy...
by Alliance Française | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog
In her Tuesday morning French class, Martine studied Le collier rouge de Jean-Christophe Rufin et La chambre des officiers de Marc Dugain. Gordon has compared those two novels : La chambre des officiers et Le collier rouge : Si l’on fait la comparaison entre ce...
by Alliance Française | Jul 8, 2019 | Events, Les +, Workshops
Come and discuss “Envoyée Spéciale” by Jean Echenoz with our French teacher Martine in Bristol. Everyone with an interest in French literature is welcome: Thursday 7th November 2019 at 1pm or Thursday 7th November 2019 at 7pm Location: Lansdown Pub, Clifton BS8...
by Alliance Française | Jul 7, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Workshops
We are delighted to invite you to our fourth Café Scientifique in French. Philippe Blondel, Département de Physique, Université de Bath Pur produit de l’éducation française, Philippe est physicien de formation et a quitté la France il y a plus 26 ans. Il s’est très...
by Alliance Française | Jul 4, 2019 | Blog
If like us, you have been enjoying watching Wimbledon, you might want to know all the vocab ready for Roland Garros next year! Mais qui va gagner? Here is some tennis vocabulary : A as in 30A: equality of points during a game such as 30-30 As: ace Juge de chaise ou...
by Alliance Française | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog
We’ve just finished La chambre des officiers by Marc Dugain, this is what our student learning French with Martine, Alan, thought of it: Je recommanderais ce livre pour plusieurs raisons. Tout d’abord, c’est une histoire intéressante, bien racontée. Mais, il y a aussi...
by Alliance Française | Jun 7, 2019 | Announcements, Blog
In Martine’s Wednesday evening French class, we read Le collier rouge by Jean-Christophe Rufin over the last few weeks. Here is what Anita wrote once we had finished it: En hommage au livre Le Collier Rouge de Jean Christophe Rufin Je recommande vivement...
