Many members of our community this past week have expressed a powerful surge of emotion attached to the beautiful Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with all of you, I was glued to the news on Monday as reports came in that the cathedral was on fire. I was 16 the first
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Reserve your seats here! Lycée Français de New York senior Alice Dauchez likes books. She likes books so much, she started a reading club at the school last year. Today, the Novelty Book Club claims several active members from the Lycée student body, and, this May 8th, the club will
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The Lycée’s World Languages Department is thrilled to announce that starting this fall, we will be offering Arabic as a second language—alongside Spanish, German, Chinese and Italian. Arabic is a language of amazing cultural and strategic importance. It is one of the UN’s six official languages, with 350 million speakers
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The Lycée math curriculum is bilingual. How does this benefit students? Bilingualism and biculturalism are two of our biggest assets, as math educators. On the one hand, the French math tradition is very strong, and even world-renowned. It is well-designed to lay groundwork for understanding theoretical concepts, pure math, and
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The history of the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York has been marked by some unforgettable conferences. Many diverse examples come to mind: the physicist Etienne Klein, economists Esther Duflo and Joseph E. Stiglitz, filmmaker Raoul Peck, and even the writer Gaël Faye. And, this past February
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On February 9th, Lycée parents, donors and guests gathered at the Skylight on Vesey, in view of New York City’s Statue of Liberty, for our annual gala. This year’s theme was “La Vie Devant Soi : The Journey is Everything,” and our keynote speaker was the entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi
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In the same spirit as the Suffragettes project of Mireille Miller, our primary art teacher—which focuses on women who fought for their right to vote—the Lycée’s French department seeks to pay tribute to women writers and Francophone artists from history, and make them more visible. 10th-grade students thus launched themselves
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In 2013, Lycée students embarked on their first Service Learning trip to Vietnam. In partnership with Aide Dentaire Viet-Nâm (an NGO that brings dental care to underserved populations), a small retinue of ambassador students and teachers arrived at the front door of an orphanage in Da Nang. Together with the
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On Saturday, December 8, the Cultural Center of Lycée Français de New York invited our community, as well as educators and parents from across the city, for a daylong discussion on the future of reading, “La Lecture, Oui, but Why?“. The first panel included a lively discussion about inspiring children
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Children’s literature might sound like child’s play in comparison to literature for adults, but it’s not! The genre comes with questions and relationships that are at least as complex as books for grown-ups—if not more. Children’s literature must work to set itself apart from general reading culture and maintain autonomy.
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