Wondering where to go to celebrate "La fête nationale" in your area? Check out the various events organized by the Alliance française chapters in the US Southeast and join in the fun!

Tournées Film Festival: French Films on Campus helps to bring French cinema to American campuses. This year, 13 universities and colleges were selected to receive grants for the 2016-2017 edition. Congratulations to this year's recipients!

Director Laurent Védrine examines the up-and-down love affair France has for the bicycle, which first appeared at the end of the 19th century as a luxury for the rich, before becoming affordable during the second industrial revolution.

A French feminist hero finds a convent full of secrets in this true-life tale of rape, survival and sisterhood in "The Innocents" by Anne Fontaine. Screening at Midtown Art Cinema in Atlanta on July 15, 2016.

The Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, AL presents Marguerite, a French drama by Xavier Giannoli with Catherine Frot.

Michel Gondry returns to the big screen with his latest film "Microbe and Gasoline, a coming-of-age story premiering in Atlanta on July 22, 2016.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presents a screening of French animated film "April and the Extraordinary World" on July 27, 2016.

Summer Singers of Atlanta and Orchestra of the American Heartland will perform "Requiem" by Gabriel Faure on Sunday, August 14 St. John United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA.

In "Women on the Edge", Artistic director and choreographer Pascal Rioult gives his own interpretation of timeless myths, which highlight not only the grace, strength, and resilience of women in society but also the futility and immorality of war.

The 2016 American Dance Festival presents French company Wang Ramirez, a dynamic duo made up of dancers / choreographers Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang, respectively of French-Hispanic and Korean-German origins.

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens - a fine art museum and public garden with a permanent collection that includes French and American Impressionist paintings - celebrates 40 years of French art with its newest exhibition "The Impressionist Revolution".

Forty-five drawings from across fifty years of Henri Matisse’s career will be on display at the Weatherspoon Art Museum from June 25 to September 18, 2016.

Patrons of Henri Matisse, Claribel and Etta Cone bequeathed 69 prints and 6 bronze sculptures by the artist to the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s collection. Exhibition on display through October 16, 2016.