Mise en scène de Jean-François Sivadier, Théâtre National de Bretagne-Rennes, 2013
le 24 mars (lundi) - Hosted by Ali Touilila
le 25 mars (mardi) - Hosted by Ali Touilila
le 26 mars (mercredi) - Hosted by Saly Touré
le 27 mars (jeudi) - Hosted by Saly Touré
’Amuse-Bouche va bientôt sortir son nouveau numéro : PASSAGES, une collaboration d’étudiants de Yale et d’intellectuels français et francophones.
Venez fêter sa parution avec nous le jeudi 17 avril à 16h à HQ #131 (student lounge) !
Supertitles in English.
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Please contact our student and faculty advisors with any questions:
This exam is for graduate students who need to fulfill a language requirement. Exams consist of two passages to be translated from French to English. A print dictionary is permitted for use, but not provided; students must supply their own. Exams are held once per semester.
Spring 2025
3:00 - 5:00pm, Friday April 25, 2025 HQ #133
PLEASE USE THIS QUALTRICS SURVEY TO SIGN UP FOR THE EXAM.
Contact Lauren Pinzka, Exam Proctor, for questions concerning the exam.
Please email the French Registrar, Bethany Hayes, if you have questions on how to sign up for the exam.
Spring 2025 QR Code:
We’re excited to present our third screening of the Spring cycle entitled “La Transition” (Transition), which will focus on coming-of-age narratives. The third screening will take place on Wednesday, March 5th at 6:30 PM at LORIA 351 (190 York Street), featuring the critically acclaimed film Tomboy by Céline Sciamma.
Directed by Céline Sciamma, who is widely known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Tomboy (2011) follows 10-year-old Laure who, upon moving to a new Parisian neighborhood during the summer, chooses to be called Mickaël, after being mistaken for a boy by Lisa, one of the girls next door. Laure/Mickaël is quickly accepted by the group of boys Lisa introduces them to and begins a romance with Lisa, until Laure/Mickaël’s parents get involved. Sciamma’s touching and tender portrayal of a gender non-conforming child is even more important today, as threats are made to queer rights in the US.
We look forward to seeing you for an evening of exceptional cinema and stimulating conversation!
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 6:30pm
Loria 351
Best regards,
The Yale French Department Ciné Club
Do you love cinema, the French language, or perhaps both? Or are you still mourning the loss of downtown New Haven’s last movie theatre and longing to watch a film in a setting that revives that magic?
The Yale French Department Ciné Club, organized this academic year by Ecole Normale Supérieure Exchange Students Apolline Cuchet and Saly Touré, invites you to explore timeless classics and award-winning contemporary films that shape French cinema.
From animated films, and political dramas, to comedies and heartfelt coming-of-age stories, there will be something for everyone! Screenings are open to everyone in the Yale community. Films will be screened in French with English subtitles.
Mark your calendars (see Spring 2025 program below)!
Marlene Daut will present her latest book, The First and Last King of Haiti:The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, in conversation with Pierre Saint-Amand.
The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti.
Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over: in The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still controversial enigma that he was.
Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to gain their freedom from France. Yet in an incredible twist of fate, Christophe ended up fighting with Napoleon’s forces against the very enslaved men and women he had once fought alongside. Later, reuniting with those he had betrayed, he offered to lead them and made himself their king. But it all came to a sudden and tragic end when Christophe—after nine years of his rule as King Henry I—shot himself in the heart, some say with a silver bullet.
Why did Christophe turn his back on Toussaint Louverture and the very revolution with which his name is so indelibly associated? How did it come to pass that Christophe found himself accused of participating in the plot to assassinate Haiti’s first ruler, Dessalines? What caused Haiti to eventually split into two countries, one ruled by Christophe in the north, who made himself king, the other led by President Pétion in the south?
The First and Last King of Haiti is a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.
Neige Sinno will present, in conversation with Professor Morgane Cadieu, Sad Tiger (translated by Natasha Lehrer), a powerful work that breaks the taboo of incest, both through her personal testimony and literary exploration. She first confronted this trauma at 19 by suing her stepfather for sexual abuse, and now again with this book, which has become a major literary event.
Sinno weaves her personal history with reflections on its impact on her loved ones and draws on literary influences like Virginia Woolf, Maggie Nelson, and Toni Morrison to examine narratives of dehumanization. She also critiques society’s failure to adequately address incest, arguing that it is not just a private issue but a systemic, political, and public health crisis. Legal experts support this view, emphasizing that dismissing incest as a personal matter enables society to ignore it.
Unlike conventional narratives of resilience, Triste Tigre rejects redemption or easy solutions. Sinno instead engages in a raw philosophical exploration of humanity, questioning whether denying an abuser’s humanity also denies her own. The book is an act of resistance, urging society to confront sexual violence through open discussion and difficult questions.
(Summarized from Albertine’s review)
We’re excited to present our second screening of the Spring cycle entitled “La Transition” (Transition), which will focus on coming-of-age narratives. The second screening will take place on Friday, February 21st at 6:30 PM at LORIA 351 (190 York Street), featuring the critically acclaimed film Aya de Yopougon by Marguerite Abouet et Clément Oubrerie.
Adapted from the series of graphic novels written by Marguerite Abouet and drawn by Clément Oubrerie, Aya de Yopougon (2013) was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at 39th César awards. The film, set during the seventies, is mediated and narrated by 19-year-old Aya, from the Yopougon neighborhood in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, as she dreams of becoming a doctor, against the wishes of her father. With her friends, Bintou and Adjoua, who dream of bettering their economic situation by finding a husband, they enjoy the nightlife, until one of them becomes pregnant. Through its soft-colored tones and a 70s soundtrack, Aya de Yopougon takes a humorous and melodramatic approach to the themes of women’s emancipation in postcolonial West Africa.
The screening will begin with an introduction and will be followed by a discussion.
We look forward to seeing you for an evening of exceptional cinema and stimulating conversation!
Best regards,
The Yale French Department Ciné Club
Do you love cinema, the French language, or perhaps both? Or are you still mourning the loss of downtown New Haven’s last movie theatre and longing to watch a film in a setting that revives that magic?
The Yale French Department Ciné Club, organized this academic year by Ecole Normale Supérieure Exchange Students Apolline Cuchet and Saly Touré, invites you to explore timeless classics and award-winning contemporary films that shape French cinema.
From animated films, and political dramas, to comedies and heartfelt coming-of-age stories, there will be something for everyone! Screenings are open to everyone in the Yale community. Films will be screened in French with English subtitles.
Mark your calendars (see Spring 2025 program below)!
