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CONCOURS de SLAM AVEC GRAND CORPS MALADE

Envoyez votre texte ou votre vidéo en respectant une seule consigne: votre slam doit contenir les dix mots choisis pour la Semaine de la langue française! Soyez créatifs, les gagnants seront annoncés par Grand Corps Malade lors de son chat vidéo le 14 mars prochain!

Festival of New French Writing: French and American Authors in Conversation

Seven major French writers, all translated into English, exemplifying the wide variety of styles and forms of contemporary French literary production, will come to New York from February 24 to 26 for two and a half days of one-on-one encounters with leading American writers, in dialogues hosted by well known American cultural critics.

These discussions will shed light on the concerns and accomplishments of writers in France today as well as on the similarities and differences that the commitment to writing implies in France and in the U.S. The Festival of New French Writing hopes to attract new American readers to modern French and Francophone fiction and non-fiction.

Thierry Compain, 2005, 55 min.

In French with English subtitles

In the 1950s, because their families couldn't feed them, thousands of girls were sent from Brittany to Paris to work as housemaids, often to be exploited by their employers.