Past Events

Laura Flessel-Colovic is a five time Olympic champion in épée fencer and twice gold medalist in Atlanta in 1996. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman.She also earned 6 world champion titles and
one european champion title. Before 2007, she was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club Escrime, and now works with Lagardère Paris Racing. She was France's flag-bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, which was her fifth and last Olympics.

She also served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. She was appointed Minister of Sports in the Philippe Government on 17 May 2017 and resigned on 4 September 2018. Her non-for-profit work is commanding. She created Ti'Colibri to promote fencing. She is
one of the personalities in Paix par le Sport (Peace and Sport). She was the advisor for the 10th Gay Games in 2018 to name just a few.

 

Pascale Remy is a graduate from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP Group). She has a professional experience in international management within private corporations and non-profit organizations, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. She has spent more than fifteen years in the United States, including ten in Chicago, where she was the Executive Director of the Alliance Française. She currently leads the international partnerships of Sport dans la Ville. Sport dans la Ville is France’s leading nonprofit serving disadvantaged youth through sports and job-readiness training. She is committed to developing Sport dans la Ville International Program and
particularly exchanges with the United States so that more young people can benefit from such life-transforming experiences every year. In 2024, over 350 young people will benefit from this program.

Alice Park is the senior health correspondent with TIME and author of The Stem Cell Hope, How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives. In 2019, she co-chaired the inaugural Time 100 Health Summit. She has written cover stories on stem cells, childhood vaccinations, the health care system, heart disease, HIV, cancer immunotherapy and the gene editing technology CRISPR. Park also contributes to the magazine’s Olympics coverage, covering figure skating, gymnastics and swimming.
She is the recipient of the 2021 New York Press Club Award for Feature Reporting —Science, Medicine & Technology.

2022 | biopic/comedy | 2h08 

Three-time César Award winner Valérie Lemercier plays Aline from ages five to 50 in a fictional musical dramedy freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion.

Les Mémoires d'Hadrien #3
in partnership with NYU Maison Française

Wednesday, April 26  | 6:30 pm | $20 suggested donation 

With Mémoires d'Hadrien #3, Jean Pétrement adapted Yourcenar's work for theater and was praised at the Festival d'Avignon. As part of a partnership with NYU Maison Française, it will be performed in the Auditorium. 

The Velvet Queen | Vincent Munier & Marie Amiguet 

Thursday, February 2 | 6:30 pm | Free event 

2021 | documentary | 1h32


In French with English subtitles. 

April 15, 2019. A violent fire breaks out in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The firemen will do everything to save the French monument. The Name of the Rose's director recreates this dramatic moment on screen, and takes us through the emotion that took over the world more than three years ago. He also pays tribute to the firemen mobilized. 

 

How do we actively construct our "inner cinema"? How do we project its images to the world? What impact on our relationship with the collective and on living together? In dialog with Dr. Lionel Naccache, researcher at  Paris Brain Institute, neurologist at Salpêtrière hospital and author; Dr. Gordon Baltuch, neurosurgeon and parent of the Lycée; Siri Hustvedt,  writer and lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. They will discuss the role of fiction in subjective perception, the construction of empathy in relationships, and the future of the brain, from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Laura Flessel, five-time Olympic fencing champion and former French Minister of Sports, will honor us with her presence at the Lycée for two days of meetings and exchanges initiated by a senior student, Ariane Chevrier. 

In conversation with Alvin Patrick, executive producer at CBS News, and our student, Laura will answer questions about the rise of female athletes and discuss their challenges and opportunities. Other topics will include fair competition, equal finance and equity in the perspective of the 2024 Olympics. Don’t miss it !

 

After his wife's death, Stéphane moves to the mountains with 8-year-old daughter Vicky, who has stopped talking. One day, while walking in the forest, Vicky discovers a puppy that she decides to keep in secret. She names him Mystery. Soon, Stéphane realizes that the animal is actually a wolf and tries to separate his daughter from him, but the task is a lot harder than expected.

For 4th and 5th grades