Entente Cordiale, Trinity College French Society

17/10/2021

Applications for Committee Positions will close Wednesday 20th October at midnight! Very very low committement and great experience for your CV just drop an email as per instructions to [email protected] to express interest and/or ask any qs!

12/10/2021

COMMITTEE POSITIONS NOW OPEN
Committee positions for Entente Cordiale are now open. We are looking for:

-Secretary (low-commitment role to keep on top of events and publicity)
-Treasurer (another low-commitment role just to organise the accounts and budget)
-Ents officer (also v low-commitment, organise and create events incl. trips to London, potentially to Paris, Cinéclub etc.)

As emphasised in the descriptions, all of these roles are super low commitment and would be great fun plus always useful to have experience on your CV working with a Trinity society. We’re hoping to get a fun, dynamic team together to have a fantastic year of French-related activities.
To apply, write a short piece (no more than 300 words) about why you would like the role and we will get back to you ASAP. Freshers are highly encouraged to apply! Send applications to [email protected]
Looking forward to hearing from you and working with you soon😊

31/12/2020

Joyeux Noël tout le monde ! Et maintenant, bonne fin d’année !
If you’re looking for something to keep you in the Christmas spirit, and to enrich your knowledge of French Christmas traditions at the same time, be sure to check out this wonderful audio of a gorgeous French Christmas song- and explore the YouTube channel with many more examples of these beautiful songs!

https://youtu.be/DC3Ycl_dALM

Bonne vacances, joyeuses fêtes et bonne année ! 🎉🎉

Bien cordialement,

Entente Cordiale

18/08/2020

Ever wanted to know how singer-songwriter extraordinaire Leonard Cohen could be connected to French culture? Look no further!

Jewish singer-songwriter extraordinaire Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) was born in Montreal, the majority of whose inhabitants are French. In a 1975 interview he said ‘I don’t speak French that well, I …

05/07/2020

Looking for more reason to celebrate independence, with a bit of Monet on the side?

Nope, not the fourth of July, but… the fourteenth: Le 14 juillet, or Bastille Day. So, just in case you were coming down with ‘end-of-fourth-of-July-blues’ (who isn’t?), in only ten day…

21/06/2020

Joyeux solstice d’été !

The summer solstice, or midsummer, is when the sun reaches its ‘zénith’, or its highest position in the sky. That day, today, has the most daylight hours of any day in the year. In France, the most…

18/06/2020

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous Appel to resistance. With a translation of his speech and reflections on its pertinence today,

Today marks 80 years since Charles de Gaulle made his famous call to resistance on the 18th June 1940. This speech is often credited as the spark that set off the French Resistance movement followi…

08/06/2020

https://ententecordialetcfs.wordpress.com/2020/06/08/french-literature-festival-a-travers-les-mots/
Strong women in a patriarchal world, reflections on the Rwandan genocide, and Fanon's thinking through alienation, race and identity...

Just to draw your attention to a fantastic initiative by the Institut Français: their annual French Literature Festival, Beyond Words, has gone digital! All the content, which includes exclusive in…