Enjoy ballet the Statue of Liberty, Bastille Day and Mardi Gras with us
French NYC
Phantom of the Opera
Dark Sundays
MAJESTIC THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
The Paris opera house is haunted by the longest-running Broadway show in history
Beaujolais nouveau
Thu, November 19, 2020
Taste the fruit in this season’s Beaujolais by drinking it chilled right after it is bottled
FIFA World Soccer Rankings
December 19, 2019
USA women are #1. 70% of the top ten men’s teams are Latin: France, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Argentina and Colombia
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2019 at Film Society
LINCOLN CENTER; Feb 28 – Mar 10, 2019; French film festival ~ New and classic French movies co-presented by UniFrance
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Bastille NYC ~ French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
60th Street
Fifth Avenue to Lexington
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Sunday, July 15, 2018
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French New York City
Manhattan’s French community is in the Upper East Side around Lycée Français and FIAF. We have both an Embassy and a Consulate.
Brooklyn’s French community is centered around Carroll Gardens and Greenpoint.
Louis Vuitton
MIDTOWN EAST, SOHO & BATTERY PARK CITY, NYC ~ The flagship store is the one in Midtown at Fifth and 57th
Givenchy
Daily
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
The house of the French couture designer who defined 1950s elegance
French Consulate
934 Fifth Avenue
between 74th & 75th St
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Closed weekends
Chanel
Madison Avenue, Upper East Side
57th Street, Midtown
SoHo
Barbès
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn ~ This eclectic French-owned underground night club that regularly books Latin artists was also the original home of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia band Chicha Libre
Met Cloisters
Daily
FORT TRYON PARK, NYC ~ This reconstructed French cloister is a museum of medieval art known for its unicorn tapestries
Hermès is the fashion house of the French establishment
691 Madison Avenue at 62nd
Upper East Side, Manhattan
15 Broad St at Exchange Place
Financial District, Manhattan
Closed on Sundays
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French Culture
Paris was the world capital before New York. Oh là là
Mardi Gras
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana
“Fat Tuesday” is the end of Carnival before the pious Catholic fast of Lent
Carlos Gardel
Friday, December 11, 2020
TOULOUSE, France ~ Charles Romuald Gardès, the iconic Argentine tango singer and world’s second Latin movie idol, was born on December 11, 1890
World Ballet Day 2019
Wed, October 23, 2019
The world’s leading ballet companies take you behind the scenes to see a day in the life of a professional ballet dancer on Facebook Live
France
Our Lady of Lourdes
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
LOURDES, France
This Marian apparition told 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous to dig a well whose water is famous for miraculous healings
Saint John’s Eve or Festa Junina
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Hispanic countries
Celebrate midsummer (or midwinter) by gathering with family around bonfires on the eve of Saint John the Baptist’s birth
Bastille Day, La Fête nationale
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
PARIS, France
The French Revolution began with the storming of La Bastille fortress on July 14, 1789
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade
Sunday, August 23, 2020
The more you think about it, the more you wonder how the Atlantic slave trade was allowed to happen, and why we haven’t gotten over it
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