Sunday, May 5, 2024

From the President

 Chers tous,

Welcome back to your monthly invitation to take part in local French news! A big thank you to everyone who came along to hear about our recent trip to Europe. It is quite difficult to talk about everyday life, to recount events, emotions and sensations, while at the same time trying to interest your listeners, but I hope that Wal and I have succeeded in giving you what you were hoping for and making you want to go away somewhere, and why not to Normandy and Brittany? There are a thousand and one reasons to visit these two regions, the history, the legends, the beauty, the inspiration, the art… it’s all around you.

Our next get together is on 23 May, for the showing of the film-documentary “Notre-Dame on Fire”. A meticulous reconstruction based on eyewitness accounts, cross-checking and expert reports, this film is breathtaking and spectacular, instructive and captivating, a masterpiece, which I urge you to come and see.

In this month's newsletter you will find all our regular articles, including an interesting story written by Frances Perkins on the acquisition of their property in the Lot region, and a critique of the movie “Anatomy of a Fall” written by our talented Anh-Thu Stuart.

In a few days, Mother's Day will be upon us, and while in France mothers are given roses and lilies, in Australia they are given chrysanthemums. Did you know that in France this is the cemetery flower, the one that is placed on the graves in early November? Let me tell you how surprised I was the first time I received a pot of chrysanthemums for Mother's Day! I wish all mothers and the mothers-at-heart a beautiful bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day.

Sylvie

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