This winter and spring, L’École Buissonnière invites you to a monthly Café Littéraire, a French conversation class rooted in literature, seasonal culture, and thoughtful exchange.

Inspired by French cafés as places of ideas, debate, and imagination, these gatherings offer a slow, intimate approach to the French language. Each 90-minute session opens a thematic doorway through short literary texts, guided conversation, and gentle creative practices.

The focus is not performance or fluency at all costs, but presence, curiosity, and pleasure in thinking together.

Each month highlights a seasonal cultural moment in France, including traditions that shape language and collective imagination.

MARCH 1st | The World of the Francophonie
Le monde de la francophonie: Aimé Césaire and Négritude: poetry as resistance, identity, dignity

From 10:30 to 12 pm (90 minutes)

 📍 Practical Information

• When: First Sunday of each month, February–May

• From 10:30 to 12pm (90 minutes)

• Where: Mother Foucault’s Bookshop

• Group size: Limited to 10 participants
  Pricing: Full bundle: $90
  → Includes all 4 sessions + a convivial Garden Party (a French-style apéro) celebrating French culture at the end of the cycle

• Single session: $20

• Drop-in: $25

This winter and spring, L’École Buissonnière invites you to a monthly Café Littéraire, a French conversation class rooted in literature, seasonal culture, and thoughtful exchange.

Inspired by French cafés as places of ideas, debate, and imagination, these gatherings offer a slow, intimate approach to the French language. Each 90-minute session opens a thematic doorway through short literary texts, guided conversation, and gentle creative practices.

The focus is not performance or fluency at all costs, but presence, curiosity, and pleasure in thinking together.

Each month highlights a seasonal cultural moment in France, including traditions that shape language and collective imagination.

 APRIL 5th | Read Little, Read Together
Lire peu, mais lire ensemble
Seasonal focus: Poisson d’Avril médiatique & la tradition du chocolat et des œufs de Pâques 

From 10:30 to 12 pm (90 minutes)

 📍 Practical Information

• When: First Sunday of each month, February–May

• From 10:30 to 12pm (90 minutes)

• Where: Mother Foucault’s Bookshop

• Group size: Limited to 10 participants
  Pricing: Full bundle: $90
  → Includes all 4 sessions + a convivial Garden Party (a French-style apéro) celebrating French culture at the end of the cycle

• Single session: $20

• Drop-in: $25

This winter and spring, L’École Buissonnière invites you to a monthly Café Littéraire, a French conversation class rooted in literature, seasonal culture, and thoughtful exchange.

Inspired by French cafés as places of ideas, debate, and imagination, these gatherings offer a slow, intimate approach to the French language. Each 90-minute session opens a thematic doorway through short literary texts, guided conversation, and gentle creative practices.

The focus is not performance or fluency at all costs, but presence, curiosity, and pleasure in thinking together.

Each month highlights a seasonal cultural moment in France, including traditions that shape language and collective imagination.

MAY 3rd | The Art of Argumentation à la Française
L’art de l’argumentation à la française

Seasonal focus: La Fête du Travail — le 1er mai & le muguet

From 10:30 to 12 pm (90 minutes)

 📍 Practical Information

• When: First Sunday of each month, February–May

• From 10:30 to 12pm (90 minutes)

• Where: Mother Foucault’s Bookshop

• Group size: Limited to 10 participants
  Pricing: Full bundle: $90
  → Includes all 4 sessions + a convivial Garden Party (a French-style apéro) celebrating French culture at the end of the cycle

• Single session: $20

• Drop-in: $25