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Monthly Café Littéraire — French Conversation Classes “The World of the Francophonie”

  • Mother Foucault's Bookshop 715 Southeast Grand Avenue Portland, OR, 97214 United States (map)

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

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Monthly Café Littéraire — French Conversation Classes "The Café as a Place of Thought"

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