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Do you love books? French culture? Helping people? Are you organized? Available 5 days a week starting December 1st, 2018? Do you feel as comfortable working in French as you do in English?

Talk

Dior and His Decorators

Design historian Maureen Footer and TV producer and award-winning author Marie-France Pochna will be discussing Footer's latest book, Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look.

Recovered Memory: New York and Paris 1960-1980

Journalist and photographer Frank Van Riper will discuss his latest book, Recovered Memory: New York and Paris 1960-1980 (just out in the U.S. with Daylight Books )

Blog

French Illustrators at Albertine: Olivier Tallec

Read more below about our new series of works by French illustrators who have visited and sketched Albertine.

Blog

Albertine Book Club Winter/Spring 2018

Join author and Columbia professor Caroline Weber and the staff of Albertine and the French Embassy’s Book Department for fruitful and lively conversation around classic and contemporary French literature once a month.

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Albertine Book Club on Germinal by Émile Zola

Join us for a lively conversation on Germinal, a novel by Émile Zola, translated from the French by Roger Pearson (Penguin).

Staff Pick

Forêt obscure by Nicole Krauss

Forêt obscure is a fascinating novel full of mirrors--a dazzling meditation on our lives-not-lived, the choices we could have made but eventually didn't, and on the very nature of fiction itself.

Staff Pick

Lunii: My Fabulous Storyteller

Designed for children 3 years and up, the Lunii looks like a toy radio--with its bright green and yellow colors and portable size. Interactive and playful, the Lunii is a surefire way to ignite your child's imagination while keeping them…

Reading List

5 Children's Books to Celebrate Thanksgiving!

Here are 5 children's books about gratitude, the joy of sharing, and culinary traditions from all around the world! Just what you need to get you and your little ones into a Thanksgiving mood!

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Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

Category: Talk

Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Paris-based international lawyer‎ and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018).

Albertine Book Club on Germinal by Émile Zola

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Albertine Book Club on Germinal by Émile Zola

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

6:30 PM

Join us for a lively conversation on Germinal, a novel by Émile Zola, translated from the French by Roger Pearson (Penguin).

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