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LEICESTER FRENCH CIRCLE WELCOMES YOU

LE CERCLE FRANÇAIS DE LEICESTER VOUS ACCUEILLE

PROGRAMME FOR 2024/2025

We are proud to have successfully delivered our programme of talks and activities for 2024. Now we are looking forwards to the exciting second half of our programme starting in January 2025.

It features talks from fluent French speakers on a variety of interesting topics. 

The individual events are listed below in our Upcoming Events section which will be regularly updated. 

You can also click on the "Programme" button below for a printable list of our talks and events for the new season.

We will be delighted if you decide to join the Leicester French Circle for the rest of the season to March 2025. There is a full membership option which includes all of our events whether Face-To-Face or Online. There is also an option to sign-up for individual talks. Whichever, option you choose, you will be assured of a warm welcome. Simply click on the Membership Application Form below for details of how to apply.

If you have any queries or need any further information, please use the contact form below.

OUR AIMS AND VALUES

The Leicester French Circle is a social group of members and supporters who share a passion for the French language and culture. 

We arrange talks in French at the Oadby Tennis Club and also online on the Zoom platform through our panel of speakers from the Alliance Française and from the French Circle.

We also organise social events at the Oadby Tennis Club, Café Chloe Gourmet in the city centre and at the Phoenix cinema.

From time to time, we are asked to recommend French tutors for adults and children. This is not part of our remit, and we would recommend that you search locally through organisations such as Leicestershire Adult Learning Services. The Leicester French Circle takes seriously its safeguarding responsibility to its members and to others with whom we interact and therefore cannot recommend individual language tutors.

We also receive unsolicited requests from authors and others wishing to promote their books and commercial services. Unfortunately, we have to politely decline their requests as we are a social organisation with no wish to promote commercial enterprises. ​​​

 

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Upcoming Events

  • Marie Curie par Cédric Cabanne
    Marie Curie par Cédric Cabanne
    Thu, 06 Feb
    Zoom access from 19.00
    06 Feb 2025, 19:30 – 21:10
    Zoom access from 19.00
    06 Feb 2025, 19:30 – 21:10
    Zoom access from 19.00
  • Quelques personnalités marquantes de la Révolution française par Thierry Viennois
    Quelques personnalités marquantes de la Révolution française par Thierry Viennois
    20 Feb 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Zoom
  • Quiz
    Quiz
    Thu, 06 Mar
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    06 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    06 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    Soirée amicale pour tester vos connaissances et pratiquer votre français
  • Assemblée Générale
    Assemblée Générale
    Thu, 20 Mar
    Zoom
    20 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Zoom
    20 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Zoom
    Annual General Meeting. Conducted in English. Zoom access from 19.00. Prompt start at 19.30
  • La France, vue de loin et de près par Claude Rapport
    La France, vue de loin et de près par Claude Rapport
    Thu, 23 Jan
    Zoom
    23 Jan 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Zoom
    23 Jan 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Zoom
  • Le Panthéon : Aux grands hommes ...et aux grandes femmes par Maryse Wright
    Le Panthéon : Aux grands hommes ...et aux grandes femmes par Maryse Wright
    Thu, 09 Jan
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    09 Jan 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    09 Jan 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
  • Soirée de Noël
    Soirée de Noël
    Thu, 05 Dec
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    05 Dec 2024, 19:00 – 21:10
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    05 Dec 2024, 19:00 – 21:10
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    Célébrer avec les membres du Cercle français de Leicester.
  • Café Chloe Gourmet  (1)
    Café Chloe Gourmet  (1)
    Fri, 15 Nov
    Leicester
    15 Nov 2024, 10:30 – 12:00
    Leicester, 23 Cank St, Leicester LE1, UK
    15 Nov 2024, 10:30 – 12:00
    Leicester, 23 Cank St, Leicester LE1, UK
    Drop in at Café Chloe Gourmet from 10.30am to meet up with like-minded lovers of the French language and culture. Enjoy a chat in French or in English. Sample a delicious French pastry and hot drink. Learn more about the Leicester French Circle.
  • La Littérature de guerre par Martine Benitez
    La Littérature de guerre par Martine Benitez
    Thu, 14 Nov
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    14 Nov 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    14 Nov 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    Lors de cette conférence, nous lirons et analyserons plusieurs poèmes, lettres et chansons qui traitent tous de la guerre. Pendant cette soirée, nous penserons aussi à honorer tous cers jeunes soldat, hommes, femmes et enfants disparus dans le passé et victimes de fléau de la guerre.
  • Albert Camus par Emilie Capulet
    Albert Camus par Emilie Capulet
    Thu, 31 Oct
    Zoom access from 19.00
    31 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:10
    Zoom access from 19.00
    31 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:10
    Zoom access from 19.00
  • L'héritage de Napoléon Bonaparte: 200 ans après sa mort, que reste -t-il? par Brigitte Thibaut
    L'héritage de Napoléon Bonaparte: 200 ans après sa mort, que reste -t-il? par Brigitte Thibaut
    Thu, 17 Oct
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    17 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    17 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
  • Café Chloe Gourmet  (1)
    Café Chloe Gourmet  (1)
    Fri, 11 Oct
    Leicester
    11 Oct 2024, 10:30 – 12:00
    Leicester, 23 Cank St, Leicester LE1, UK
    11 Oct 2024, 10:30 – 12:00
    Leicester, 23 Cank St, Leicester LE1, UK
    Drop in at Café Chloe Gourmet from 10.30am to meet up with like-minded lovers of the French language and culture. Enjoy a chat in French or in English. Sample a delicious French pastry and hot drink. Learn more about the Leicester French Circle.
  • Le Paris de Balzac et la fiction réaliste d'aujourd'hui : Illusions perdues et Paris retrouvé par Vincent Raymond-Barker
    Le Paris de Balzac et la fiction réaliste d'aujourd'hui : Illusions perdues et Paris retrouvé par Vincent Raymond-Barker
    Thu, 03 Oct
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    03 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    03 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
  • Soirée d'accueil
    Soirée d'accueil
    Thu, 12 Sept
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club
    12 Sept 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
    12 Sept 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Rd, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AB, UK
  • Café Chloe Gourmet
    Café Chloe Gourmet
    Sat, 31 Aug
    Leicester
    31 Aug 2024, 10:10 – 11:40
    Leicester, 23 Cank St, Leicester LE1, UK
    31 Aug 2024, 10:10 – 11:40
    Leicester, 23 Cank St, Leicester LE1, UK
    Drop in at Café Chloe Gourmet from 10.15am to meet up with like-minded lovers of the French language and culture. Enjoy a chat in French or in English. Sample a delicious French pastry and hot drink. Learn more about the Leicester French Circle.

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ABOUT US

A Bit of Background

The Leicester French Circle, founded in 1899, is an Anglo-French Society welcoming everyone interested in France and the French language. Evening  meetings usually take the form of a presentation, in French, on a wide variety of  interesting topics. 

The Leicester French Circle is affiliated to the Alliance Française de Londres, a charity whose aim is the diffusion of the French language and culture, and that supports French Circles around Britain.

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T V 5 MONDE

This is your link to the website of T V monde which has an extensive FREE library of  TV programmes and videos in French. You can choose to watch films with subtitles in French, English and other major languages.

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