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.

FEBRUARY 1st | The Café as a Place of Thought
Le café comme lieu de pensée

Seasonal focus: La Chandeleur (crêpes, light returning)

We’ll explore how cafés have shaped French intellectual and artistic life, read a short text together, and reflect—en français—on solitude, presence, and the art of being together.

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