Alliance Francaise de Hartford

Café et Conversation
2026-06-20 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-07-04 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-07-18 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-29 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-26 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) and 13 more dates | Heirloom Market, 263 Main St,, Wethersfield, CT, 06109, United States
CAFÉ ET CONVERSATION
HEIRLOOM MARKET
263 Main Street
Wethersfield, CT

10:30 – 12:00

Join us for socializing and breakfast at Heirloom Market. Look for us at a table. Enjoy the coffee and food offerings while there.
We would love you to join us for a great opportunity to speak French or to maintain fluency. Come enjoy good friends and lively conversation.

La Tres Catastrophique Visite du Zoo
2026-06-20 12:30 - 13:30
La très Catastrophique Visite du Zoo
Joël Dicker

PLACE: Heirloom Market
263 Main Street
Wethersfield, CT

TIME: 12:30 – 1:30

“Pendant des années, dans la petite ville où j’ai grandi, les esprits restèrent marqués par les évènements qui se produisirent au zoo local un vendredi de décembre, à quelques jours de Noël. Et pendant toutes ces années, personne ne sut la vérité sur ce qui s’était réellement passé là-bas. Jusqu’à ce livre.”
À la veille de Noël, une visite scolaire dans un zoo tourne à la catastrophe.
Please RSVP to let us know you are coming.

France vs. Iraq
2026-06-22 17:00 - 19:00
France vs. Iraq

France vs. Iraq
Monday, June 22, 5:00 pm
Place: TBD

France vs. Norway
2026-06-26 15:00 - 17:00
France vs. Norway
Friday, June 26, 3:00 pm
2nd Bridge Brewing Co., Manchester
https://2ndbridge.com/

France vs. Sweden
2026-06-30 17:00 - 19:00
France vs. Sweden

The Iron Horse
West Hartford

https://ironhorsesportspub.com/iron-horse-west-hartford

United States vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina
2026-07-01 20:00 - 22:00
United States vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina
Wednesday, July 1, 8:00 pm
Pratt Street, Hartford

Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
2026-07-17 16:00 - 17:00
Event begins at 1pm PT / 2pm MT (except Phoenix) / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
Join us for a discussion with Anne Higonnet, author of Liberty, Equality, Fashion.
Liberty, Equality, Fashion is about three revolutionary women who turned themselves into style celebrities. Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France, Térézia Tallien, declared the most beautiful woman in Europe, and Juliette Récamier, icon of artists and writers, had nothing left to lose. They had emerged in 1794 from the worst violence of the French Revolution, just barely. Joséphine and Térézia had been incarcerated and threatened every day with death by guillotine; Juliette had been married to her father and condemned to perpetual virginity. The three survivors reacted by overthrowing centuries of royal dress codes. They tossed away corsets, petticoats, brocades, baubles and coiffure towers to introduce light, mobile dresses, cropped hair, and the handbag.
Fascination alternated with shock as Joséphine, Térézia, and Juliette boldly took control over their sexuality. Paris succumbed. News spread. All of a sudden, Europe could see the female body, and see it move. The French Revolution had defeated monarchy to usher in universal human rights and elected government. No one had imagined it would also include a total change of clothes, let alone one which would express liberty for all women.
Anne Higonnet is the Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received her BA from Harvard College in 1980 and her PhD from Yale University in 1988. She has published, most recently, the widely reviewed Liberty, Equality, Fashion; the Women who Styled the French Revolution, as well as pieces in Vogue, Town & Country, Brooklyn Rail, and the Wall Street Journal. She has written five other books as well as many essays, and directed two book-scale digital projects. Her research has been supported by Getty, Guggenheim, Social Science Research Council, and Harvard-Radcliffe Institute fellowships, as well as by grants from the Mellon, Howard and Kress Foundations. She a prize-winning teacher of popular lecture courses. A hybrid version of her Clothing course has been offered in partnership with National Education Opportunity Network to public high schools across the nation since 2024.
Liberty, Equality, Fashion; the Women Who Styled the French Revolution is available through Amazon and as an audiobook.
For AATF members: the AATF office will send certificates of attendance to members who request the certificate and provide a screenshot. Please email: staff@frenchteachers.org.
Please visit the site afusa.org to register for this event.

Bastille Day Celebration
2026-07-18 12:00 - 17:00
Chez les Yeager
62 Ridgewood Road
Glastonbury, CT
12:00 – 5:00 PM

Join us at the Yeagers’ beautiful house and gardens in Glastonbury to celebrate the Fête Nationale, enjoy the beautiful gardens as well as a game of pétanque
.
Please bring a dish to share and your own drinks.
Rain Date: July 19, 2026.

The French Alliance and the Road to Yorktown
2026-07-21 19:00 - 20:00
Keeney Memorial Cultural Center
200 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT
July 21, 2026.
7pm

$10 (Free for Wethersfield Historical Society Members)
Wethersfield resident Silas Deane played a crucial role in helping to establish an important
alliance between the U.S. and France. This lecture by Dr. Richard Bell will explore the important
role that the alliance with the French played in the American Revolution and how the alliance
evolved over time from France providing secret support with guns and other goods to France
working together with the U.S. to beat the British at the decisive siege of Yorktown.
Funding for the program series is made possible by the generous financial support of the Robert
Allan Keeney Memorial Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, M & T Charitable
Foundation, Awilda Aponte & Ken Johnson, and members of Wethersfield Historical Society.

Annual School Open House
2026-08-26 17:00 - 19:00
ANNUAL SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
5:00 – 7:00
Atlantic Works Conference Center
57 Charter Oak Ave.
Hartford, CT
Join us to welcome in the new school year. Meet our teachers, take a placement test, chose a class and sign up.
Refreshments will be served.

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