Our activities
Discover the winners of the poetry contest !
Award ceremony & the new PLUME book !
As for 3 years now, PLUME offers you a new collection of 200 pages, containing all the texts received during this 2023 edition, poetry and news combined ! New this year: English poems will also be available in this collection!
Poetry contest 2023
Organized by PLUME for its fourth edition, the Poetry Contest is back this semester ! And for the first time, it is possible to write in English ! This year there is a unique theme: “Dream in a world on fire”.
Discover our thematic articles !
Wired Love
-… — .-.. -. is how we first meet the romantic interest in Ella Cheever Thayer’s 1880 novel Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. “Just a noise,” claims our lead Nattie, a telegraphist who comes to rely on that noise for daily comfort. We read. She hears. With a moment, Thayer has demonstrated (…)
Trumpular
As I write this, the world is waking to news of Trump’s indictment. It’s a moment many Americans stopped anticipating long ago, attuned as we were to the never ending cycle of outraged media anchors, pontificating legal experts, and promises that this time, things were different. As they were with the Mueller report. As they (…)
A year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
Could anything sound more appealing to those of us ripped away from break and planted in lecture seats? With A Year in Provence, his 1989 memoir about slow living in the south of France, Peter Mayle has this and many more ways to inspire envy in anyone with obligations. For the modern expat crowd, he (…)
Most of our activities are for the moment held in French, but if you want to help us developing our English department, don’t hesitate to contact us !