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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So, you want to change the ceramic tiles in your kitchen. They’ve been in front of you for years and the other day you just decided you had enough of these small beige squares. The problem is not the color, what bothers you now is the shape. You find squares
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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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Dear Parents, Ce matin nous nous sommes retrouvés à 7h30 à l’école comme d’habitude. Après avoir dit au revoir à nos correspondants, nous sommes montés dans le bus pour un long trajet. Nous nous dirigions vers une école affiliée à Fudan University ( another campus of this school). Une fois
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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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At the Lycée Français de New York, we are lucky to have fourteen grade levels (soon-to-be Nursery to Y12) contained in one school. Our students range from age three to age eighteen. They come in so small, with bright eyes and awareness mainly focused on themselves and their family, and
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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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