Book club
Mon 23 September 2013 – 6.15pm
@ Alliance française de Manchester
Free of charge
By joining the book club, you will have the opportunity to discover the world of French-speaking literature in a relaxed environment with like-minded Francophiles.
23 September 2013 – Candide by Voltaire
How to better start a new year than with a classic of French literature? Candide has had to escape from his childhood castle and he is led through a series of catastrophic adventures. Poor Candide witnesses the death of his dream of a perfect world. Would humanity be fundamentally mean?
Next book club: 21 October 2013 – Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand