“More children ages 1-5 know how to use a smartphone application than can tie their own shoe laces” is a something about which you may have heard this week if you were able to listen to “New Tech City” on WNYC public radio last Tuesday. This statement, made in the
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5 questions au co-président bénévole du Fonds Annuel
Pourquoi êtes-vous à New York? Notre venue à New York est née d’un désir familial. Une branche de la famille est américaine et nous souhaitions que nos deux enfants connaissent cette partie-là de leurs racines. Ma femme a eu l’opportunité d’un poste diplomatique qui nous a décidé à concrétiser l’aventure; de mon côté je
Read More!Un pour tous et tous pour la lecture!
“I’d be happy to take one, if you still have enough”, I said to our student. “Please do, Monsieur,” he replied, handing me something which resembled a business card and which he had been distributing to passersby. “The Black Count?” I asked. “He looks like a dashing person.” Yes, continued
Read More!Après l’ouragan Sandy, le Lycée Français se mobilise
La communauté du Lycée Français peut se féliciter de ne pas être restée passive face aux dégâts majeurs causés par l’ouragan Sandy le 29 octobre dernier. Le service communautaire du Lycée et l’association des parents d’élèves (APL) ont coordonné leurs efforts afin de venir en aide aux résidents qui ont
Read More!Devoir de mémoire
Our ninth grade students and secondary school choir had the unique privilege today of taking part in a deeply moving ceremony organized at the Lycée Français de New York by the French Consulate and the American Society for the French Legion of Honor. In connection with the Veterans’ Day commemorations
Read More!Venez vous régaler au Festival d’Automne 2012!
Everybody is welcome to the 2012 Fall Festival at the Lycée Francais. Spread between Friday evening, November 9th and Saturday, November 10th, participants will enjoy various tastings of cocktails, high end chefs, a book fair, a vendors’ fair as well as many fun activities for children. Here is the program: Tasting
Read More!Big Bird’s Nest
It is hard in the face of others’ distress and sorrow and suffering, as has been the case this past week with a hurricane wreaking havoc from Port-au-Prince to the Rockaways, to know just what to say. And perhaps it is best not to talk at all, except to express
Read More!“Because It’s There!”
“Wow!” “When can we start?” “That slanted part looks neat.” The wall has only been in place for a few days, since the end of break, but I myself have already been to see it several times, twice to marvel on my own and thrice to show others how just
Read More!Letter from Paris
Graduates from class of ’12. Thursday, October 11. 8:17 AM. Lycée Louis le Grand. 5th arrondissement, Paris. I have arrived early for today’s meeting so that I can bask in the atmosphere of this room called the “grand parloir”, located off one of the many marble staircases in a school
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