Join us for the next "Dinner with the Yale Club" with Christian Strain ('92). Christian will give a talk that will first explain the current state of the Private Equity industry and it's impact on our lives, and will speak about transitioning from a career in the industry to volunteering as an EMT with the Paris Fire Brigade (and what you should do if you ever need to call 18 or 15 in an emergency!).

A dual French-American national, Christian is a Senior Advisor at Summit Partners, a private equity firm that invests in market leading high growth companies worldwide. During his tenure at Summit, Christian led the firm's efforts in the business and financial services in Europe and served on the boards of companies across a range of industries. He is also a former board of member of Invest Europe and currently serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Christian is a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and volunteers regularly as part of a Red Cross ambulance crew in Paris in support of the Paris Fire Brigade.

Date:  Wednesday, April 24

Time : 7:30 pm

Price: 40 Euros per person

Venue: Member's apartment

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Grab your mics! On April 6, we will have a Karaoke night. Please join us for this fun event. Space is limited.

Date: Saturday, April 6

Time : 7:00pm

Venue: Charming venue in central Paris.

Price : 15 Euros

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

On March 19 we will discuss "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" by Lucette Lagnado"

Date: Tuesday, March 19

Time : 7 pm

Venue: Virtual (with Zoom application)

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

The Yale Club of France will take part in this winter Yale tradition, which has now gone global. Join us for drinks and casual fun. We will be at the top floor of Frog Revolution. Look for the Yale sign

Date: Thursday, February 22

Time : 7:30pm

Venue: Frog Revolution, 9 Rue de la Bastille

Price : Free

Book Club - "Hiroshima" by John Hersey

Our next work is "Hiroshima" by John Hersey (who attended and taught at Yale). We'll discuss the work at our next meeting on Tuesday, January 30 at 7 pm CET.

Date:  Tuesday, January 30

Time : 7 pm

Venue: Virtual (with Zoom application)
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Come and celebrate The Game from abroad. Reunite with old friends and reminisce on past game experiences, whether the stories concern last minute touch downs or early decisions to abandon the spectator stands due to frost-bite. Luckily, this time, we'll be viewing from inside.

Date: Saturday November 18

Time : The Moose 16 Rue des Quatre Vents, 75006 Paris

Venue: 6pm

Price : Free

On November 14 we will discuss "Tortilla Flat" by Steinbeck. Here's what one reviewer on Goodbooks wrote about Tortilla Flat: "I don't know why the sad tales of John Steinbeck fill me with so much joy. It doesn't really make sense."

Date:  Tuesday, November 14

Time : 7 pm

Venue: Virtual (with Zoom application)
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Join the Yale Club of France for an autumn walk in the beautiful Fontainebleau forest!

Our walk will take us through a variety of landscapes and points of interest, including majestic fern-covered woodlands, open shrublands, and an ancient fort. If we're lucky, we may even spot a woodpecker!

Please bring snack bars and one liter of water. Please also wear appropriate walking shoes.

Date: Sunday, October 22

Time : 11am (please be on time)

Price : free

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Join us for an evening of whiskey tasting in the elegant ambiance of The Travellers Club led by Georgetown alumn and Two Worlds Whiskey founder Ashley Donahey.

Through this guided tasting of five diverse whiskies guests will learn about the history of American whiskey and its French origins, as well as the history of Two Worlds Whiskey, the first luxury American whiskey created for France.

Named to honor Marquis de la Fayette, Two Worlds Whiskey celebrates the historic French-American alliance by uniting the traditions and savoir-faire of both countries to create truly unique whiskey.

Date:  Tuesday, October 24

Time : 7 pm
Venue: The Travellers, 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008 Paris France
RSVP: reservation link

We will be discussing "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson -- a work of fiction proposed by Marilyn Y that tells a story of how climate change will affect us all.

Our session is set for Tuesday, September 19, at 7 pm CET.

Date:  Tuesday, September 19

Time : 7pm

Venue: Virtual (with Zoom application)
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

The Yale Club of France invites you to join Brad Newfield, a French-American guide for Paris Walks.

Explore the area of the Left Bank in Paris which was the center of the universe if you were a writer or artist in the first half of the 20th century. See the Latin Quarter neighborhood immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and by Woody Allen in Midnight in Paris, and where James Joyce, George Orwell, Honoré de Balzac, and Paul Verlaine also lived and worked. We finish on rue Mouffetard with its picturesque village atmosphere.

Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.

Date: Saturday, September 9

Time : 2pm-4pm

Meeting point : metro Cardinal Lemoine

Price : 10 € per person

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Our annual meeting to fulfill our legal obligation as an “Association 1901” will include the President’s review of events, the Treasurer’s report and election of Club officers.

Date: Wednesday, July 12
Venue: Café in central Paris
Time: 7pm
RSVP: Please email president@yalefrance.org

Please save the date for the Annual American University Clubs of France 2022 (AUC) Embassy Reception and Summer Cocktail to be held Wednesday, July 10, 2022.

The Yale Club of France invites you to join Brad Newfield, a French-American guide for Paris Walks.

Jefferson, Franklin & the American Founding Fathers: The tour starts on the Concorde square where Benjamin Franklin signed the Treaty of Alliance and France was the first to recognize the independence of the U.S. We will walk through the Tuileries Garden and cross the Seine to the statue of Jefferson near one of Jefferson's favorite buildings, the Palace of the Legion of Honor. We will continue along the Left Bank and hear stories of Voltaire, Lafayette, Jefferson's favorite artists, the aristocratic salons. We will see the French Institute, the Mint, a house turned into a Masonic Lodge, and one of Jefferson's favorite bookshops. We will wind up the tour at the city's oldest café, the Procope, frequented by Franklin and the Enlightenment philosophers.

Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.

Date: Sunday, July 9

Time : 2pm-4pm

Venue : We will meet in front of the Hotel Crillon on the Concorde Square.

Price : 10 € per person

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Come and celebrate with the Yale Club the Summer with a picnic at Parcdes Buttes Chaumont.

Date: Sunday, June 25

Time : 2:30pm

Venue: Parc des Buttes Chaumont, on the lawn down by the lake below the mairie du 19e. Bring something to eat and drink.

RSVP: Please email president@yalefrance.org

Yale professor Maurice Samuels will talk to us about his new book on Alfred Dreyfus.

Maurice Samuels (born August 9, 1968) is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University. He graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) in 1990 from Harvard University, where he also earned his MA (1995) and PhD (2000). Before moving to Yale in 2006, Samuels taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France and in Jewish Studies, and is the author of books and articles on these and other topics. He is the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.

Date: Tuesday, June 20

Time : 7:30pm

Venue: Member's apartment

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Yale will host the monthly Happy Hour in association with the Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn, & Princeton Clubs.

Date: Thursday June 1st

Time : 7pm

Venue: Frog Revolution, Rue de la Bastille, Paris

On May 23, we will have our next Yale Club of France Book Club session. We'll be discussing "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston.

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Minter Dial (Y87), author and speaker on leadership, brand and transformation, will give an interactive webinar on why and how to develop a culture of empathy in your organisation. He'll explore some of the challenges, pitfalls and myths around empathy and then will look at the state of the art of programming human skills -- notably empathy -- into machines. With the step-change in AI that we've witnessed over the last couple of years, Minter will lay out some of the impressive opportunities and threats associated with Large Language Models and foundational AI. We'll look at some of the advancements in the world of therapeutic AI and how our relationship to machines will change in the future.

Minter will be releasing two new books this year including the second and significantly modified version of his award-winning book, Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (DigitalProof Press 2023), which comes out in French simultaneously. You can also check out his new book for the second half of 2023 that he's been writing on Substack, Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations (https://minter.substack.com). More about Minter: https://www.minterdial.com/

Date: Wednesday May 17

Time : 7:30-8:30pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Price : Free

You are invited to an All Ivy happy hour hosted by Cornell taking place at Monsieur Henri wine bar in the Marais. This wine sanctuary is renowned for its exceptional collection of French natural wines. Here, the art of natural winemaking is celebrated, with a focus on minimal intervention, giving you the truest expression of the grape's character and terroir. Enjoy a selection of delicious wines from all over France while making new friends.

Join us for an enchanting evening of camaraderie, where brilliant minds meet, stories are shared, and connections are made stronger. We'll raise a glass to memories old and new, to shared history and future adventures, and to our enduring All Ivy Spirit!

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All Ivy get together

What : All Ivy Drinks hosted by Cornell 

When : 16 May 7:00 pm / Tuesday

Where : Monsieur Henri, 8 Rue de Picardie, 75003 Paris

Why : To meet, exchange, smile & laugh

Feb Club: Yalies of all ages and schools gathered to celebrate the global Yale tradition of Feb Club. Good beer and good cheer was had by all.

Book Club - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: On November 19 we had our seventh Yale Club of France Book Club session. We discussed The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. We had a rich discussion of this book!

We watched the Game with our friends from the Harvard Club at the Moose.

On November 17 we had our seventh Yale Club of France Book Club session. We discussed "The Aleph" by Jose Luis Borges. We had a rich discussion of this book!

We will have an unusual opportunity to hear from Daniel Gross, a top US and international financial and business writer, who has come out with his ninth book, a remarkable biography of famed banker Edmond J. Safra whom former World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn called "the greatest banker of his generation".

Daniel Gross will be introduced by Seth Goldschlager, YLS '71, who is advisor to the Edmond J. Safra Foundation that provided the author with exclusive access to Mr. Safra's archives, as well as numerous prior interviews with people who knew him.

We will hear not only about the unique story of the youth from Syria who built a banking empire on four continents and became, with his wife Lily, a fixture in social circles in New York, Paris, and Monaco, (including ownership of the Villa Leopolda, one of the most valuable properties on the Cote D'Azur) but also about business and finance today, which Dan continues to cover in articles and books

Date: October 25
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Join the Yale Club of France for an autumn walk in the beautiful Fontainebleau forest!

Our walk will take us through a variety of landscapes and points of interest, including majestic fern-covered woodlands, open shrublands, and an ancient fort. If we're lucky, we may even spot a woodpecker!

Date: October 9
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

On September 22 we will have our fifth Yale Club of France Book Club session. We will discuss "L'Amant" by Marguerite Duras. If you are interested in joining us, please send me a message. We look forward to a rich discussion of this book!

Date: September 22
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

The Yale Club of France invites you to join Brad Newfield, a French-American guide for Paris Walks.
This time we will be doing a tour of the St-Germain des Pres. The tour starts at the Church of St. Sulpice. From there we will make our way to the Church of St-Germain-des-Près and the Deux Magots and Café de Flor, then to Place Furstemburg and the art and interior design galeries. We will see the hotel where Oscar Wilde died, the site of the most famous jazz club of the 40s and 50s, Gertrude Stein and Picasso's studios, and the Beat Hotel.

Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.


Date: September 11
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

Songwriter Cuchulain (TC '13) returned to Paris by popular demand for an intimate acoustic performance to release his new single "Sing In The Shower" as part of an international tour. Cuchulain is a low-voiced songwriter with a wry wit. The NPR Music-featured folk singer released an album of long distance pandemic collaborations called FEAT that was called "an as-yet-unpublished portion of the Great American Songbook." Cuchulain's deep baritone and clever lyrics have drawn comparisons to Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, and Johnny Cash. His Sing In The Shower single release tour will take him across the US and Europe this summer 2022.
https://www.cuchulainkelly.com/

On March 31 we had our sixth Yale Club of France Book Club session. We discussed "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. We had a rich discussion of this book!