Greenwich Arts Council and
Alliance Francaise of Greenwich
Just Books and Greenwich Library
at Greenwich Library
101 W Putnam Ave
Greenwich, Connecticut

203-629-1340
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
at 5:00 pm 

DISCUSSION GROUP

 MARCEL PROUST’S

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: VOLUME 1, SWANN’S WAY 

 Open to all Proust Lovers!  In this book discussion group, you don’t choose the book, the book chooses you! Discussions are in English. Second Tuesday of each month at Greenwich Library, 2nd floor

 If you are a Proustian or like to be one, join the club for a discussion of the famed Marcel Proust books, In Search of Lost Time (Penguin Classics; $16), starting with the first book, Swann’s Way.  Call the library: 203-629-1340 or contact Fereshteh Priou: 203-918-1238.

 You may join the discussion group at any time and participation is open to all.  Books on sale at Just Books.  Fees are $50 per semester; $40 for GAC members.  Upcoming discussion group dates are: 2nd Tuesday of each month at Greenwich Library, 2nd Floor.

Alliance Française of Greenwich
at Restaurant Jean-Louis
61 Lewis Street
Greenwich, Connecticut
February 3, 2011
7:15pm

Dinner and lecture with Mireille reading passages from her book French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure (cookbook), choice of menu, cost $55 per person( wine included)

Cocktail reception, Amuses Bouches with choice of wines and book signing at 6PM, cost $ 25 per person

Attend both events any pay only $70 (gratuities not included)

Reserve early at 203-622-8450 – Reservations limited.

Mireille’s book can be purchased online through justbooks.org in Old Greenwich

About Mireille: (from justbooks.org)

Internationally best-selling author Mireille Guiliano (Meer-ray Julie-ano) was a long time spokesperson for Champagne Veuve Clicquot and former President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. (LVMH). Recognized as “an ambassador of France and its art of living,” by the French daily Le Figaro, USA Today further dubbed her “the high priestess of French lady wisdom.”

Her book, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure, in which she recommends bread, Champagne, chocolate and romance as key ingredients to a balanced diet and lifestyle, captured the imagination of an overweight world tired of yo-yo diets and became a runaway best seller around the world, hitting the top of the best seller charts in many countries, including the USA, where it was number 1 on The New York Times Bestseller list. It has been translated into 37 languages. She followed it up with another best-seller, French Women for all Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure.

One of the few women who have reached the top echelon of the wine and spirits as well as luxury goods industry, Mireille has been called a champion of women in business and works with groups promoting business opportunities and education for women. She is credited with growing Champagne Veuve Clicquot’s top image, and under her leadership, Veuve Clicquot’s market share in America grew from less than one percent to more than 25 percent. Her casebook strategic approach to positioning and growing ultra-premium brands is often cited. She shares lessons learned along the business road in her third book, Women, Work and The Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense and Sensibility. Drawing from her experiences in the highest echelons of the business world, and through lively stories and helpful hints, she gives women (and a few men, peut-etre) the practical advice they need to make the most of work without skimping on all the other good things in life.

She frequently presents nationally and internationally on business topics, especially related to the luxury goods sector, as well as on wine, gastronomy and lifestyle. Mireille’s The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook was released in April 2010.

A sought-after guest on radio and television in the USA and abroad, Mireille has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, CBS’ The Early Show, NBC’s Dateline, CNN, among many national broadcasts, and has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, People, Business Week, More, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and dozens of other publications. For years she has also contributed articles on food, wine, travel and lifestyle to a wide range of publications, including Newsweek and The Quarterly Review of Wines.

The Alliance Francaise of Greenwich
Author Talk & Book Signing
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7:00pm

JACKIE O “THE FRENCH CONNECTION” – A Lecture by filmaker Karen Kelleher
& JACKIE BEHIND THE MYTH, ON THE MAKING OF UNSEEN VERSAILLES - by Deborah Turbeville 

Greenwich Arts Council – The Meeting Room
299 Greenwich Avenue
RSVP: 203-629-1340
Free for AFG members, $10 for non-members
Champagne, wine, cheese & dessert to follow

Filmmaker Karen Kelleher will present a lecture on the collaboration between Jacqueline Onassis, literary editor, Deborah Turbeville, fashion photographer and Louis Auchincloss to create the tour de force photography expose, Unseen Versailles. Kelleher is the credited co-writer and producer of the 1999 PBS film Jackie Behind the Myth and is currently directing a film biography of Washington Irving.  Both Deborah Turbeville and Louis Auchincloss were interviewed at length on their creative collaboration, Turbeville on the images and Auchincloss on the narrative describing the secret hidden backrooms of Versailles. Kelleher plans to use never before heard interviews describing this fantastic story on how Unseen Versailles was created.

Just Books
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Thursday, February 11
from 7:30PM-8:30PM
with wine & hors d’oeuvres.

Just Books and The Alliance Francaise welcome AFG members and friends to “FRENCH IN ENGLISH” a new book club focusing on contemporary French writers translated into English.

Series begins on Thursday, January 14 at Just Books @ 28 Arcadia Road in Old Greenwich, CT . SARAH’s KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay will be the first book with future texts suggested by the group. Discussion will be led by well known book club leader, Susie Carter from 7:30 – 8:30 and will include wine and hors d’oeuvres at each session.

French in English is scheduled for Thursday, January 14, Thursday, February 11 and Thursday, March 11. The series is free to Alliance Francaise members and $10 for non-members. Books purchased at Just Books will be offered at a 10% discount to members.

For further information and to register, please contact Sarah Zehouani at 203-629-1340

Pre-requisite: You must read Sarah’s Key before the first session. Please come with suggestions for future books – April in Paris by Michael Wallner is already an idea for February.

“Elegant Entertaining”: Seasonal Recipes from the American Ambassador’s Residence in Paris
By Dorothy Walker Stapleton and Philippe Escoffier, Photographed by Francis Hammond

January 26, 2009
at Restaurant Jean-Louis
61 Lewis Street
12:30PM

Join the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich and Just Books on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 12:30 for lunch at Restaurant Jean-Louis of Greenwich.

Greenwich resident Dorothy “Debbie” Stapleton, wife of Ambassador to France Craig Stapleton will share her life at the embassy from 2004-2009. Hostess at thousands of dinners, lunches and receptions at the rue Faubourg St. Honore residence in Paris, Mrs. Stapleton will discuss the history of this “glamorous and hidden treasure”

Enjoy lunch and learn why “The art of cuisine is perhaps one of the most effective forms of diplomacy.” Copies of Elegant Entertaining, Seasonal Recipes from the American Ambassador’s residence in Paris will be for sale and signed personally by Mrs. Stapleton

RSVP to $29.00 Prix-fixe lunch (tax and gratuities not included) at
Restaurant Jean-Louis of Greenwich
61 Lewis Street
Greenwich, CT
203-622-8450

Premier plat
Soupe de legumes d’hiver a la Tomme de Savoie
ou
canelloni de crevette, inspire de “A la table de l’Ambassadeur”

Plat Principal
Saint Jacques au cresson, inspiree “A la Table de l’Ambassadeur”
ou
Osso Buccco de Chevreuil a la diable

Dessert

Just Books
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Thursday, January 14, 2009
 730PM- 830PM with wine & hors d’oeuvres

Just Books and The Alliance Francaise welcome AFG members and friends to “FRENCH IN ENGLISH” a new book club focusing on contemporary French writers translated into English.

The series begins on Thursday, January 14 at 28 Arcadia Road in Old Greenwich, CT . SARAH’s KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay will be the first book with future texts suggested by the group. Discussion will be led by well known book club leader, Susie Carter from 7:30 – 8:30 and will include wine and hors d’oeuvres at each session.

French in English is scheduled for Thursday, January 14, Thursday, February 11 and Thursday, March 11. The series is free to Alliance Francaise members and $10 for non-members. Books purchased at Just Books will entitle members to a 10% discount at Just Books.

For further information and to register, please contact Sarah Zehouani at 203-629-1340 or e-mail Sarah at afgreenwich@aol.com. French in English is being promoted by the Alliance Francaise in order to offer great French literature in English.

Pre- requisite – You must read Sarah’s Key before the first session. Please come with suggestions for future books – April in Paris by Michael Wallner is already an idea for February

Remember the French this weekend as they celebrate Bastille Day.  Although Bastille Day is officially on July 14, many establishments are celebrating earlier starting this weekend.  On Saturday, visit the French outdoor market in Stamford with all the fresh offerings to make a lovely meal à la française. On Sunday, there are two venues near Greenwich, one in Fairfield, and the other in Southbury (New Haven County), as well as NYC to choose from (see below). Greenwich will officially honor Bastille Day on Tuesday, July 14th, at Town Hall with Peter Tesei, First Selectman and Chantal Chauvin, Consule Générale Adjointe in New York attending.

French Farmer’s Market
Saturdays until October 31, 2009
10am-2pm
Bedford Street at Forest
Stamford
203.348.5285
Admission: Free
Come celebrate the French farmer’s market with exciting new vendors offering the freshest fruits, vegetables and flowers, baked goodies and more. Straight from the farm right to your home.
For more information: http://www.stamford-downtown.com/
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Celebrate  Bastille Day at the
10th Annual Fairfield French Festival
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Sanford Street
Fairfield CT
from 12:00 noon to late afternoon
Admission: Free
Live Music
Pétanque Tournament… A French Game similar of Bocce
and Much more….
Restaurant Row
Blue Lemon of Westport
Café Lola and
Saint Tropez Bistro Français of Fairfield
Children’s Activities
Temporary Tattoo, Face Painting…
Vendors and Displays
Kùl Shùz
Pink Cloud, Guliani, Encore Man.
Swim’n Surf, Lettre de France…
Live Music by
www.majesticEE.com
Saint Tropez Restaurant will be open at 12 noon serving a prix fix lunch menu until 4 p.m. and their regular dinner menu from 4:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 203.254.8094 email: sttropezbistro@optonline.net or visit http://www.saint-tropez-bistro.com/
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La Fête du Quatorze Juillet
Sunday, July 12, 2009
5:00pm-8:30pm

Francophones et Francophiles, bring familyand friends to Cornucopia at Oldfield 782 Main Street North Southbury, CT.   Have a picnic on the terrace and take part in this eventful celebration.  Play pétanque, croquet and badminton, listen to French music and watch the fireworks.
Cornucopia Bed and Breakfast is in Southbury’s Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been published in various works, including Wallace Nutting’s “Connecticut Beautiful.” 
Members: $25, couples: $45,  non-members: $30,  couples: $55, children: 10 years and under free.
For more information contact:  203.263.4096 or afnwct@snet.net or visit: http://www.cornucopiabnb.com/
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Bastille Day on 60th Street
New York City
Sunday, July 12, 2009
From 12 to 6pm
between Lexington and Fifth Avenues
For more information please email: comitedu14juillet@fiaf.org
or go on: http://www.bastilledaynyc.com/Index.htm
60th Street from Fifth to Lexington Avenues
Presented by
le Comité du 14 juillet
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Bastille Day in Greenwich
Greenwich, CT
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Greenwich Town Hall
101 Field Point Road

With Mme Chantal Chauvin, Consule Générale Adjointe in New York and Mr. Peter J. Tesei, First Selectman, Town of Greenwich.

You are invited to the raising of the French flag in front of Greenwich Town Hall. Everyone present at the flag raising ceremony is invited to Meli-Melo for a “French Breakfast”, accompanied by  “Viennoiseries”  from Versailles Restaurant in honor of Maurice Clos Versailles, a friend and long standing supporter of the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich.

Special Menu from Méli-Mélo and Jean-Louis in Greenwich