by Alliance Française | May 18, 2018 | Blog
Our students leaning French with Alliance Française Bristol Bath had a memorable evening with French author Antoine Laurain, best selling writer of La femme au carnet rouge and Le chapeau de Mitterrand. If you have missed it, don’t worry: Paul, who takes a...
by Alliance Française | May 7, 2018 | Announcements, Blog
Antoine Laurain in one of his most famous novels, Le chapeau de Mitterrand, describes les brasseries parisiennes and their plateau de fruits de mer ( seafood platter) which makes your mouth water ( vous met l’eau à la bouche): « Le plateau arriva avec ses fruits de...
by Alliance Française | Apr 28, 2018 | Blog
« La beauté du diable » This film, starring idol Gérard Philippe, is about an alchemist who sells his soul to the devil to become immortal, and is a favourite of one of our students learning French in Alliance Française Bristol: Ce film de René Clair avec entre autres...
by Alliance Française | Apr 15, 2018 | Blog
This week we thought we would share with you some iconic French song, in preparation for our singing workshop with our French tutor and singer Marie next week. This month, they are going to sing La bohème and La mer. But here are some more songs for you to discover....
by Alliance Française | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Alliance Française de Bristol will have its first book club (son club de lecture) on 12th April 2018 at 1pm or at 7pm. You choose your time! Kif, the title of the book by Laurent Chalumeau, is the name of a night club (une boîte de nuit), on the Côte d’Azur, and it...
by Alliance Française | Mar 23, 2018 | Blog
Students learning French in Bath with Véronique have put together a guide to their favourite restaurants in the region. One of my favourite is Wilks in Bristol, what about you? Les meilleurs restaurants de la région : Le restaurant « Henry » à Bath Nous...
by Alliance Française | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog
If you do, you might enjoy “Un avion sans elle”, a book by Michel Bussi. This book is a detective novel (un roman policier, ou un polar). It starts with a plane crash (un avion qui s’écrase) in December 1980, in the Jura, mountains in France on the...
by Alliance Française | Mar 10, 2018 | Blog
In the paralympic games (les Jeux paralympiques), Marie Bochet has won a gold medal (une médaille d’or). She is only 24 – elle n’a que 24 ans! Of course she explains she was feeling under pressure (sous pression) before the ski run (la descente),...
by Alliance Française | Mar 3, 2018 | Blog
The last few days have been surreal in Bristol, with lots of snow. Renee who started her French class with us last September and who was then almost a beginner wrote the following poem: Il neige Tout le monde est blanc Tout le monde est silencieux Les petits oiseaux...
by Alliance Française | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
Have you been watching Engrenages, Spiral in English? We had been left on a cliff hanger ( laissé en suspens) at the end of season 5 with Laure Berthaud (le commandant), several months pregnant, in hospital with a stab wound in her tummy. Fortunately, the baby...
