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Scholar of Note Ladee Hubbard provides an exclusive preview of her current project: a literary survey of marginalized women, from Eurydice to the femme fatale to Black women today.
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3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
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Paris, like all urban centers, has a long history of gentrification. What does this look like today? What will it mean for the Paris of the future?
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Meeting one of our two-part Fall 2023 Workshop: Channeling History with Scholar of Note Ladee Hubbard. |
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Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
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Explore the keys to oral language with a focus on activities for bilingual children. |
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Work on creative writing exercises, literary games, and group activities. |
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French republicanism demands the fair treatment of all citizens regardless of their background. Is refusing to name race creating a more equal society, or is it taking away the tools we have to discuss the problem?
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3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
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Meeting two of our two-part Fall 2023 Workshop: Channeling History with Scholar of Note Ladee Hubbard.
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Former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association Katrina Adams takes us behind the scenes of leadership in professional tennis and beyond.
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This interactive program features songs, rhymes and stories in English for very young children.
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How do trends become trends? What makes something popular? Inaugural speakers in our Evenings with an Author marquee series W. David Marx and B.J. Novak confront the mystery of culture. |
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Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
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A bilingual book launch places Emily Dickinson in conversation with American modernist painting. Explore the voices and visions of modernist America.
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Participate in scary movie trivia then enjoy a screening of a horror film. |
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Find your voice and craft a compelling college admission essay. |
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John Ashbery, one of the most celebrated poets of American history, is revealed in a never-before-seen light. Discover where life and poetry intertwine with historian Karin Roffman.
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3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
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Two experts discuss the traditions of French winemaking and contemporary revolutions in the industry. What are we to make of the new French wine?
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This interactive program features songs, rhymes and stories in English for very young children.
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Have we lost our ability to pay attention? Faced with a world designed to distract us, how can we control what we see and how we see it?
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Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
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Get in the mood for Halloween by helping to decorate the Library! |
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Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the American Library in Paris as part of our Entre Nous series. Nina MacLaughlin discusses her novel Wake, Siren.
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Renowned poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain reflects upon the complicated fabric of Chinese identity and diaspora in debut novel Dear Chrysanthemums.
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3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
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From Joyce to Stein, discover two vital agents and American Library in Paris members responsible for the most significant franco-anglophone literary exchanges of early 20th-century Paris.
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Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
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Put on your costumes, and get ready to trick-or-treat!
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Visit the Library to purchase your tickets for the Halloween Rumpus—a celebration for children ages 0–5 and their caregivers!
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Visit the Library to purchase your tickets for the Beastly Bash—a celebration for children ages 6+ and their caregivers! |
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Lauren Elkin, writer, translator, and flâneuse, discusses feminism in art history and revolutionary representations of the female form.
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Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
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This interactive program will feature songs, rhymes and stories in English for babies and their caregivers.
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Meet other English-language learners and learn new words with a hands-on activity. |
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The Library has reduced operating hours from Tuesday 15 July 2025 through Monday 25 August 2025, inclusive.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays: 13h00 to 19h00
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: 10h00 to 16h00
Sundays and Mondays: CLOSED
We’ll be CLOSED all day on the following: Bastille Day Monday 14 July; Assumption Friday 15 August and Saturday 16 August
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
A charitable gift from your estate is simple to implement and is easy to change if you should need to access the assets during your lifetime. If you would like to include a gift to the Library in your will, ask your estate planning attorney to add this suggested wording to your will or living trust. Please make sure to use the Library’s correct legal name appears in all final documents as: The American Library in Paris Inc.
Unrestricted Gift: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc, (insert dollar amount) Dollars* to be used for its general purposes.
Residuary Bequest: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc , (insert percentage amount) percent of the residue of my estate to be used for its general purposes.
