Free for WICE members! Come with us on a captivating journey where literature and history intertwine to offer a uniquely vivid perspective on France's past. You’ll plunge into a vibrant tapestry of pivotal events, cultural shifts, and influential figures…while falling under the spell of some of France’s best historical novelists. And then the discussion begins!
Our meetings take place in French so you'll enhance your understanding of the past while simultaneously improving your French reading, comprehension, and speaking skills in a friendly convivial group.
Group facilitator: Claudia Oudet, French teacher, editor, and translator, will offer linguistic help and literary/historical insights. (Please note: Claudia will be unable to join us on 20 November.)
We'll meet in person at Le Nelson's Café, 16 rue Coquillière, 75001
- Métro : Lignes 1/4/7/11/14 RER A/B/D Châtelet Les Halles
- Bus : 74 – 85 : Louvre – Etienne Marcel / Bourse du commerce
Préparez-vous à discuter:
“Les Rois maudits, tome 5: La Louve de France”
Philippe V le Long vient de mourir avant d'avoir atteint trente ans et, comme son frère Louis X le Hutin, sans descendance mâle. Le troisième fils du Roi de fer, le faible Charles IV le Bel, lui succède. Une évasion de la tour de Londres; la chevauchée cruelle conduite par une reine française d'Angleterre pour chasser du trône son époux; un atroce assassinat perpétré sur un souverain... La relance de l'Histoire vient d'Angleterre. La "Louvre de France," c'est le tragique surnom que les chroniqueurs donnèrent à la reine Isabelle, fille de Philippe le Bel, qui semblait avoir transporté outre-Manche la malédiction des templiers.
Come prepared to discuss:
Les Rois maudits, volume 5 La Louve de France
Philip V the Long had just died before reaching the age of thirty and, like his brother Louis X the Quarrelsome, without male heirs. The third son of the Iron King, the weak Charles IV the Fair, succeeded him. An escape from the Tower of London; the cruel campaign led by a French queen of England to drive her husband from the throne; a horrific assassination of a sovereign... The revival of history came from England. The “She-wolf of France” was the tragic nickname given by chroniclers to Queen Isabella, daughter of Philip the Fair, who seemed to have brought the curse of the Knights Templar across the Channel.
