French language and culture
on the shores of Lake Champlain

Croissants et Conversation

A social hour for novice French speakers!  

Montpelier Social Hour

Let’s speak French to each other in central Vermont! No need to register.

French Book Swap

Refresh your collection of French-language books!  Come to the French Book Swap!

Burlington Baroque

Requiem for a King — Jean Gilles & Marc-Antoine Charpentier . Burlington Baroque and L'Harmonie des saisons (based on Montreal) will perform a concert devoted to major composers of the French Baroque. The program pairs Jean Gilles’s celebrated Requiem—performed at the funeral of Louis XV—with sacred music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. For info and tickets, go here. 

Middlebury: "L'Etranger" (2025)

L’étranger
Director François Ozon, 2025

Click here to watch the trailer.

In 1930s French Algeria, indifferent Frenchman Meursault faces upheaval after his mother’s death and a fatal beach encounter with an Arab man, leading to a trial that scrutinizes his detached character in this adaptation of Albert Camus’s existential novella. The story explores his emotional aloofness amid a violent intrigue involving his neighbor and the victim’s brothers.

Part of the Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival.A ll films are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Veteran Families in the Lake Champlain Basin, 1783–1850

Suzanne Blanchard explores French-Canadian and Acadian participants in the American Revolution, their descendants, and their foundational role in the Lake Champlain region’s Francophone communities. Admission is $10.  This is the fourth presentation in a series on French Canadians in the Lake Champlain Basin.