CURRENT ACTIVITIES

September 2026

Monday 7th        The English Afternoon Conversation Group

The group normally meets on Monday afternoons. The next meeting will take place on Monday 7th September at 3 p.m. at Le Café “Les Maréchaux” 4 Avenue Maréchal de Saxe, Lyon 6ème

For information, please contact Josette Cassuto on 06 30 33 49 18 or by e-mail at josette.cassuto@gmail.com

Wednesday 9th       French Conversation Group

This group will be of particular interest to English speakers who want to improve their French, and to French speakers who will be able to exchange ideas and points of view on various topics with them, in French.

Meetings normally take place at Michèle Baldwin’s flat. 

Our next meeting is planned for Wednesday 9th September at 2.15pm

Please contact Michèle Baldwin for details at mb69007@gmail.com or 06 70 66 36 13.

Thursday 10th         Poets’ Corner

Summer holidays are over and I hope you survived the multiple canicules. 

We'll meet again on Thursday 10th at 3.30pm, same place as usual at la Mairie du 6ème. 

Topic: Uncle/Aunt, Brother/Sister, Cousin. Choose one or two or three or four or five. 

Hope to see you all then. 

Please mind the meeting the same day at la Cave Des Sots. Wendy will be doing a reading with Claire and Jean-Luc from Post Scriptum, their journey through Tuscany. Wendy lately sent us the invitation for this event.

Dietmar 

Monday 14th   The English Conversation Group

Early evening group:

The group normally meets on Monday afternoons. The next meeting will take place on Monday 7th September at 3 p.m. at Le Café “Les Maréchaux” 4 Avenue Maréchal de Saxe, Lyon 6ème

For information, please contact Josette Cassuto on 06 30 33 49 18 or by e-mail at josette.cassuto@gmail.com

Thursday 17th Ciné Club

Summer holidays are over and I hope you survived the multiple canicules. 

We'll meet again on Thursday 10th at 3.30pm, same place as usual at la Mairie du 6ème. 

Topic: Uncle/Aunt, Brother/Sister, Cousin. Choose one or two or three or four or five. 

Hope to see you all then. 

Please mind the meeting the same day at la Cave Des Sots. Wendy will be doing a reading with Claire and Jean-Luc from Post Scriptum, their journey through Tuscany. Wendy lately sent us the invitation for this event.

Dietmar 

Thursday 17th Scrabble 

Our next meeting will take place  on Thursday  17th September at 2.00pm at the Mairie du 6ème arrondissement.

Please note the new venue and time, we hope this will be more convenient and easier of access for the members of the group.

Please contact Christine Olley if you would like to join the group: christine.olley@hotmail.fr 

Don’t hesitate to come and see if you enjoy our meetings – a couple of games of Scrabble, tea and cake!

Everyone is welcome to test us, just let us know if you would like to meet our friendly group of Scrabblers!

Friday 18th       Lugdumen

Our next meeting will take place  on Thursday  17th September at 2.00pm at the Mairie du 6ème arrondissement.

Please note the new venue and time, we hope this will be more convenient and easier of access for the members of the group.

Please contact Christine Olley if you would like to join the group: christine.olley@hotmail.fr 

Don’t hesitate to come and see if you enjoy our meetings – a couple of games of Scrabble, tea and cake!

Everyone is welcome to test us, just let us know if you would like to meet our friendly group of Scrabblers!

Friday 18th       Quarterly Committee Meeting

If  you have any remarks or  suggestions that you would like to submit to the Committee, please don’t hesitate to inform our Secretary General, Chantal Poinas-Deleage at least  one week before the meeting, or any other member of the Committee if you prefer.  All your input is welcome to help us organise the activities of the Association.                             

Friday 25th       Start of Season Cocktail Party

This year’s event will take place on Friday 25th September in the Grand Salle des Beaux-arts on the 1st floor at the Mairie of the 6th arrondissement.  This is free of charge to all paid-up members of the Association, and if you wish to bring non-member guests, they will be very welcome; we will request a participation of 27€ per guest.  This can be paid by bank transfer to the Association France-Grande Bretagne    RIB:   FR 76 1780 6002 9904 1103 0167 217 or if this is not possible please send your cheque to Jean Sadowski, 5 chemin de l’Eperon, 69270 Saint Romain au Mont d’Or.

Please let Jean Sadowski know as soon as possible if you will attend by sending him an e-mail (sadowskijean2@gmail.com) or telephone him on 06 07 56 48 67.  We will confirm the time and access details very shortly.

Please reply by the 15th September so that we can let the caterers know how many people will be present.

We look forward to seeing lots of our members and also to welcoming your guests!

Friday 25th      Book Circle 

Hoping everybody enjoyed their summertime, we look forward to meeting the Book Circle members on Friday 25th at 2 pm.

The book chosen for September is “Captain Corelli’s mandolin” by a British novelist, Louis de Bernières rewarded in 1995 by the Commonwealth Writers Prize for this book, which is as much a love story as it is political satire.

The novel written in a colorful style is set on the beautiful Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II. The plot centers on an unexpected romance between Captain Antonio Corelli, a cultured, music-loving occupying Italian officer and a strong-willed Greek island woman. It is both a great tale of love and a war drama, as heartwarming as heartbreaking.

"We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other." Dr Lannis says in the novel. Bernières invites us to think how the concrete humanity of individuals contrasts with the great abstractions—nation, ideology, army, politics—in whose name people sometimes justify violence.

We could talk too about the readings we enjoyed and which helped us to go through the heatwave!

Our meeting will take place at La Mairie du 6e, 37, rue Bossuet (back entrance), room 10, 4th floor.

Metro line A - stop Massena, Bus 38, Parking LPA Morand, Place Maréchal Lyautey.

For more information, please contact Véronique Pams, veroniquegpams@yahoo.fr

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