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Pause-Café at La Maison Française is fun and très agréable!  Once a week students gather at La Maison 1404 Jefferson Park Avenue to meet new and old friends and speak French in a casual setting while enjoying coffee and snacks. (Photo by Jessie Labadie)

French Department graduate students, along with the Language Program Director, enjoy a well-deserved pause café on the Lawn.

Associate Professor Stéphanie Bérard,is the 2013 Recipient of the Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award and PhD Candidate Jennifer Holm is the recipient of the French Department's GTA Award. Both were were honored at the 2013 Teaching Award Ceremonies held April 24, 2013.

The 2013 UVa French Film Festival presented five films February 21 - 24, 2013.  Over 800 participants enjoyed the 3 day festival which included lively panel discussions and refreshments after each screening. The films included:  Les hommes libres (2011)(Free Men); Les Femmes du 6e étage (2010)(The Women on the 6th Floor); La Grotte des Rêves Perdus (2010)(The Cave of Forgotten Dreams);  L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (2009)(Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno) and  Le Hérisson (2009) (The Hedgehog).  (Photo by Liz Groff)

The 2012 graduation ceremony for BA, MA, and PhD students.

Alison Levine teaches students about documentary films by having them create their own in her "Reel Life Stories" course.

The Distinguished Majors of 2012, from left to right: Cristen Garrett, Courtenay Selden, Karim Kebaish, Emily Rowley, Sarah Elizabeth Smith, Katherine Raichlen, Megan Burke, Abena Hagan-Brown. (Not pictured: Olivia Kiers.)

Students enjoy the weekly pause café.

This 10-foot tall statue of UVA's founder was erected in Paris, near the Musée d'Orsay on the Left Bank, on July 4, 2006. A number of UVa alumni in France worked with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the city of Paris, and the Florence Gould Foundation to realize this project. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Head.)