Programme - 2020 / 2021

The Mid-Sussex Franco-British Society’s scheduled programme for 2020-2021 having been curtailed in April 2020 owing to Coronavirus covid 19 pandemic restrictions, the Society became a member of a new grouping of UK-wide French cercles (Cercles Français Associés de GB) which came together to support members by sharing its French-speaking Zoom presentations. Access to a selection of these is being regularly passed to members of the Mid-Sussex Franco-British Society until the Society can resume its normal cultural and social activities.

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Many of the speakers are high-quality professional conférenciers whom in normal circumstances our Society would find difficult to afford.   If you are not familiar with Zoom we would encourage you to learn how to link in to these talks so that you can benefit from this new source of knowledge and interest.  A member of the Committee is standing by to help so please let the Society know if you require any assistance. 

Members of the Mid-Sussex Franco-British Society have been invited to participate in the following zoom presentations:

2020
16 September - Sofia Rostopchina-Comtesse de Ségur
18 September - Marie Curie
  8 October - Aix-en-Provence, ville d’eaux, ville d’art

  9 October - L’Histoire du textile dans la région du Nord
16 October- Champs Elysées
  5 November - Le XXème siècle « dessiné » par Tintin
11 November - Simone de Beauvoir – une femme engagée

12 November - L’Epopée Michelin

  3 December - Charles Aznavour

  4 December - Lyon - La Fête des Lumières

  9 December - Mid-Sussex Franco British Society - Soirée Amicale (on Zoom)
10 December - Annecy La Belle

11 December - L’Anglophillie de Voltaire

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​2021

14 January - La Pastorale des Santons

15 January - Coluche : chanteur, acteur, comique, homme sérieux

15 January - Le rôle d’un consul honoraire

19 January - Saint-Exupéry – mystères et révélations

 4 February - Frédéric Chopin

11 February - La Muse de Saint-Germain-des-Près : Juliette Gréco

12 February - Bordeaux, Hier et Aujourd’hui

26 February - Quelques personnalités marquantes de la Révolution Française

5 March - Gourmets et Gourmands
10 March - Marseille, une ville énigmatique
11 March - La Régence de Marie de Médicis
11 March - Jean-Baptiste Charcot – explorateur
13 March - La situation politique française actuelle

19 March - L’émigration russe en France vers 1917
25 March - Catherine II de Russie et Voltaire

6 April - Promenade architecturale de Rome - à Venise

15 April - Auguste Escoffier, précurseur de la cuisine moderne

21 April - Joséphine Baker

30 April - Le Lot, département de la Beauté

4 May - Promenade architecturale de Londres à Washington

7 May - Napoléon 1er en musique et en chansons

19 May - Au fil du Rhône

28 May - Une histoire de l’Isère :  un département au cœur du Dauphiné

9 June - Quelques émigrés de la Révolution française en Grande Bretagne

14 July - Concert exceptionnel – Fête Nationale

For further details, please contact the Secretary, Mrs. Barbara Stevens at dandbstevens@btopenworld.com.