After Markets of Paris published in 2012, author and blogger Marjorie R. Williams takes you to some of French Provence’s best markets of food, antique and crafts with her soon-to-be-released new book Markets of Provence. Come hear travel stories and recommendations about the wonderful markets throughout Provence and have your book signed by Marjorie.

American and French speakers will give lectures about the Comédie-Française Registers Project, a website which displays the detailed records of the theater troupe's box office receipts for every single one of their performances from 1680 until 1791. The program also features a theatrical presentation (in French) on the Friday night and a "Hack-a-thon” on the Saturday.

Set in 1913 Paris in the last moments before the glittering City of Light would be overshadowed by war, Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár’s classic operetta The Merry Widow draws us into the opulent Paris of the legendary restaurant Maxim’s in this first-ever BLO production.

Featured in the National Center for Jewish Film's 19th annual film festival, Christian Faure's 2015 movie depicts Simone Veil’s intrepid fight to legalize abortion in France in 1974. The movie stars César Award-winning actress Emmanuelle Devos who delivers a smoldering performance in the lead role.
Two other movies are co-produced by France: the documentary The Venice Ghetto 500 Years of Life and Rabin, The Last Day by Amos Gitai, who will be present for q&A at the New England Premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts on May 14.

In conjunction with the exhibition "Geoffrey Farmer", the ICA will present a film screening organized by the Canadian artist. The selection of five experimental films, featuring rarely screened classics that resonate with Farmer’s artistic practice, includes Alain Resnais' "Toute la mémoire du monde" and Chris Marker's "La Jetée".

Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s new film, nominated for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, is a rich and unusual meditation on the Louvre Museum in Paris and the preservation of European culture during the destructive climate of World War Two.

“Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso” offers a unique opportunity to study the artist’s range of techniques and styles, with themes including the stylistic transformation of the human figure, variation of a single subject across works, and emulation of revered artistic forebears.

Photo: Head of a Woman, Portrait of Marie Thérèse Walter (1934. Oil on canvas. Isabelle and Scott Black Collection)

The International School of Boston will host a recital with an all-Chopin programme by pianist Paul-André Bempéchat, a prominent French and Canadian concert pianist who is currently Artist-in-Residence at Harvard's Leverett House.

The second collaboration between actor Omar Sy and directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano after 2012's The Intouchables depicts the story of Samba Cissé, a migrant from Senegal to Paris, who meets an immigration officer (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and fights to stay in France.
 

Albertine, the French Embassy’s reading room and bookshop in New York, is now offering a selection of high quality French language ebooks via its website. The vast majority of these ebooks are available in the U.S. for the first time.