Salon du Livre • Discussions littéraires et crêperie !

Participez au Salon du Livre de notre Festival de la Francophonie 2023, samedi 25 mars ! Deux ateliers auxquels participer en famille vous seront proposés dans la matinée. Ensuite, pour les gourmands, ne manquez pas la Crêperie de 11h30 à 12h45… car la Chandeleur n’est pas si loin !

Roumanie • Theater

Presented by the Trap Door Theater in English translation, Joan and the Fire by Romanian-French playwright Matéi Visniec examines the way in which history is constantly being rewritten to better serve those in power.

Maharani Chic

The Indian princesses who defied convention and influenced Parisian style! Behind India’s Art Deco palaces and the salons of Paris’ storied couture houses, lies an alternative narrative about the French luxury trade.

Lascivious Statues: Galatea’s Animation in Eighteenth-Century France

Taking up the popularity of the Pygmalion and Galatea myth in eighteenth-century France, Alicia will be looking at the replication of marble sculptures by (or inspired by) Étienne-Maurice Falconet in Rococo paintings of seduction and libertine novels.

The Sofa: Staging Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Sofas were a new and frequently scintillating novelty in eighteenth-century France, the object of attention by libertine writers and moralists, from the designers of fashion plate to the country’s leading painters and draftsmen.

Camille Claudel: Art, Love, and the Battle for Independence

Camille Claudel was among the most daring and visionary sculptors of the late nineteenth century. Although infamous today for her tumultuous life—her affair with Auguste Rodin, her internment for thirty years in a psychiatric institution—her art remains little known outside France, and merely nine works by the artist are currently held in American museums.