Today’s guest post is about Emmanuel Carrère, who visited the French Institute in October 2014. Who is Emmanuel Carrère? To make it...

Last week, the Lycée français Charles de Gaulle in London celebrated its 100th Birthday. Between 1915 and 2015, generations of students...

You can feel it in the air: sun slowly warming up your skin, pubs’ terraces getting crowed… summer is finally coming! And summer means...

The Commune events ended in May 1871 in Paris, but since they never stopped ringing in our minds. Kristin Ross tries to figure this...

This week we are very pleased to publish a guest post by Yasmina Khadra, one of the major francophone writers of our time, who will be in...

Books make us travel. In The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, we run through the streets of Paris in search of a mysterious lady having...

It seems that we are having a second #JeSuisCharlie moment this week. So much has been said over the past few days about Charlie Hebdo’s...

On the 11th of April, the French publishing world lost one of its great figures: François Maspero, founder of the Maspero publishing...

"Flemme" is such a nice word. I like that it is a mix between "femme" (woman) and "flamme" (flame) but actually means something...

The class from Norland Place School watched 'Le Tableau' at the Institut français and they absolutely loved it! Here are the most...