Cultural workshops and activities are regularly organized: choirs, photography workshops, literary cafés… With our outside partnerships, excursions and activities supplement the language teaching with an introduction to the richness of French culture.
The Song of Roland: the epic that founded French literature
French literature begins with a defeat. Around 1100, a poet of whom we may know only the name, Turoldus, set into verse the disaster of Roncevaux: a rearguard crushed in a Pyrenean pass, a hero who refuses to call for help, an emperor who arrives too late. The Song of Roland, some 4,000 lines declaimed by minstrels from castle to
