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AAWE has partnered with anglophone community organizations for these events.
Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah
The Transformative Power of Studying Abroad
“One of the most rewarding periods of my life was my Junior Year in Paris with the Smith group. I found that the knowledge of a foreign language, acquired by any student who is fortunate enough to study abroad, has an immeasurable and lasting effect on their life.” – Jacqueline Bouvier, November 1961
Book launch hosted in June 2023 by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, Smith College Paris, and the Smith College Club of France with the partnership of the US Embassy Community Liason Office (CLO), the Association of American Women in Europe (AAWE), INSPIRELLE, and The American Library in Paris.
In August 1949, Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad as a Smith College student. She’s twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious. Jacqueline is immediately catapulted into an intoxicating new world of champagne and châteaux, art and avant-garde theater, cafés and jazz clubs. But beneath the glitter and rush, France is a fragile place still haunted by WWII and the Occupation. Jacqueline lives in a rambling apartment with a widowed countess and her daughters, all of whom suffered as having been part of the French Resistance just a few years before. Evocative, sensitive, and rich in historic detail, Ann Mah’s novel brilliantly imagines the intellectual and aesthetic awakening of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, illuminating how France would prove to be her one true love, and one of the greatest influences on her life.
Festival America: Jennifer Egan
Pulitzer-prize-winning author
AAWE, in partnership with the American Center for Art and Culture, Edition Robert Laffont, and Festival America 2022, presented a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan on her book launch of the French translation of The Candy House. A moderated interview with Jennifer Egan was followed by book signings of her book in French and English and a champagne toast, sponsored by Champagne Dourdon-Vieillard.
Jennifer Egan’s book The Candy House (French title is La maison en pain d’épices), is a dystopian novel and loose sequel to her 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Visit From the Goon Squad. The novel is also a moving testimony to the tenacity and transcendence of human beings in search of true connections, love, intimacy and redemption.
Jennifer Egan, born in Chicago, IL, is an American novelist and short story writer. Egan’s novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Her other books include Look At Me (2001), The Keep (2006), and Manhattan Beach (2017) She is also the President of the PEN America Center. Her writing regularly appears in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.
English-Language Book Sale
In May 2023, AAWE held and English-language Book Sale at Bill and Rosa’s Book Room, 42 rue du Chemin Vert, Boulogne.
We look forward to announcing dates for these events.
AAWE Bazaar
For over forty years the annual AAWE Bazaar has been the biggest and longest-running bazaar in Paris.
An absolutely not to be missed one-day event, with a treasure trove of handmade AAWE Handicraft one of a kind holiday gifts, a pop-up clothing sale, and our famous Baked Goods, homecooked by Americans in France!
Our next Bazaar will be in December 2024 (date TBC).
Retire & Thrive Fair
AAWE Retirement Fair for Anglophones looking to retire in France.
If you are looking forward to retirement, or already retired and thinking about your health, activities and quality of life, or investigating options for family members.
Watch this space for our next Retire & Thrive event!