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The Ducrest Room
The Ducrest Family Magazine Room is attached to the Founders’ Room on the first floor and is a great complement to a rental event in the Founders’ Room. The Ducrest Room has direct elevator access to the industrial kitchen on the ground floor so that caterers can transport food and wine. Windows face out onto Marlborough Street, lending a light and open feel to the space.
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The Founders' Room
The Founders’ Room is one of three main rooms on the entrance floor of the French Library. It is the main event space where we often hold lectures, performances, dinners, and many other soirees. It is perfect for a wide array of upscale gatherings and can be rented at the same time as the other two rooms on the first floor. The Founders’ Room has a Steinway grand piano and is fully equipped with speakers and an A/V system. This room has a unique, historic feel from the antique Belgian boiserie walls and traditional gold detailing.
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L'Heure du Conte
French story time!
We invite parents and children to gather in the children's room of our library for a magical story time in French!
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Comme à la maison
Après-midi TV
The French Library is pleased to welcome you for an afternoon of cartoons in French with our sponsor TV5 Monde.
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Inventing Impressionism: Women painters and the birth of the Modern Movement
Art talk presented by Maria d’Amario
Often categorized as “technicians” or “ambitious seductresses” by the official Paris Salon, women painters were at the heart of the 19th century Impressionist movement.
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Comme à la maison
Après-midi TV
The French Library is pleased to welcome you for an afternoon of cartoons in French with our sponsor TV5 Monde.
Blog Post
Typewriters are not done with us yet!
If you look in your dusty basement or a long-forgotten closet, you might find a typewriter which has been lying there for years. Otherwise, ask…
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Barre en français: June Sessions
Exercise your body and your vocabulary online!
Improve your health and your vocabulary during our online barre classes in French!
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Le club des lecteurs (online): Folle de Nelly Arcan
ONLINE EVENT IN FRENCH
Join us in reading Folle by Nelly Arcan for the library's club des lecteurs en français. You will discover a nihilistic and disillusioned writer from Quebec.
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Le club des lecteurs (sur place): Folle de Nelly Arcan
In-person, Indoor Event in French
Join us in reading Folle by Nelly Arcan for the library's club des lecteurs en français. You will discover a nihilistic and disillusioned writer from Quebec.
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Comme à la maison
Après-midi TV
The French Library is pleased to welcome you for an afternoon of cartoons in French with our sponsor TV5 Monde.
Event
L'Heure du Conte
French story time!
We invite parents and children to gather in the children's room of our library for a magical story time in French!
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Opera Night performance: La Voix Humaine
Opera night
Composed in 1958 by French composer Francis Poulenc, La voix humaine is a one-act chamber opera scored for a single voice and piano. The work features a text by Jean Cocteau, and details one side of a conversation between two lovers as they navigate their relationship over the phone.
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Marché d'été
French Summer Market
Sip and shop your way through our line-up of local artisans and vendors at our first edition of French Summer Market. Members get in free!
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Wine tasting special summer wines
in-person and in French
If rosé is the only wine that comes to your mind when you think of summer wines, this wine tasting is for you! Join French Sommelier Bertil Jean-Chronberg to discover four American wines that will spice up your soirées d’ été!
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The World of Roses: The story of the Queen of Flowers
Join Anastasia Sokolow, founder of la Maison Sulékó and member of the French Society of Perfumers, from her Parisian showroom, to discover the mysterious world of roses.
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Barre en français: May Sessions
Exercise your body and your vocabulary online!
Improve your health and your vocabulary during our online barre classes in French!
Event
L'Heure du Conte
French story time!
We invite parents and children to gather in the children's room of our library for a magical story time in French!
Event
Comme à la maison
Après-midi TV
The French Library is pleased to welcome you for an afternoon of cartoons in French with our sponsor TV5 Monde.
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May Online Conversation Club
Online event in French
Seeking opportunities to speak French? Join us online for our popular members-only conversation gathering.
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May Alors... Conversation Club
In-person, Indoor Event in French
Seeking opportunities to speak French? Join us for our popular members-only conversation gathering.
Blog Post
Spring: beginnings and endings
Spring—or, more specifically, that first day when you open the window in your office and the smell of blooming magnolias is carried in on the…
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Comme à la maison
Après-midi TV
The French Library is pleased to welcome you for an afternoon of cartoons in French with our sponsor TV5 Monde.
Event
Comme à la maison
Après-midi TV
The French Library is pleased to welcome you for an afternoon of cartoons in French with our sponsor TV5 Monde.
Event
L'Heure du Conte
French story time!
We invite parents and children to gather in the children's room of our library for a magical story time in French!
Event
Cooking workshop and dinner with Jérôme Bergère from la Voile
Cooking workshop and dinner
Join us in the French Library's newly renovated kitchen for a French cooking workshop with one of the best chefs in town!
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La Loire à vélo
“Quand on partait de bon matin, quand on partait sur les Chemins… À bicyclette!”. It’s to the tune of Yves Montand’s lyrics that we’ll tour…
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L'Heure du Conte
French story time!
We invite parents and children to gather in the children's room of our library for a magical story time in French!