French Literary Enthusiasts

The French Instructional Book Club of L’Union Française
for Summer 2025

Revolutionary French Authors

The summer 2025 Book Club will be offered over 8 sessions, starting on June 7.

Revolutionary French Authors

Dates: June 2, June 14, June 21, June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26.

Living in a politically fraught time, French writers of the late Eighteenth Century engaged in a discourse, sometimes veiled in humor, sometimes naked in its outrage, against an oligarchic French court that would rather see peasants starve than give up their lace cuffs.

We will read works by Beaumarchais, Voltaire, and Olympe de Gouges that speak to a time where the government outraged the people it governed.

This is an instructional book club. Note that this series is in French and requires at least an intermediate French ability (B1) for participation.

The classes will meet on Saturdays at 12 p.m. at 4522 Prytania Street.

Tuition is $130 for the course.

Contact Anne Babson for additional information at anne_babson@yahoo.com