La Maison Franςaise
The Maison Franςaise houses ten students and a French assistant, and with the Cercle Franςais, it organizes a variety of activities, including parties, the weekly café franςais, a cinéclub, and an annual trip to Montréal.
Les tables françaises
French tables bring together faculty and students for lunch in Ross dining hall every weekday.
The French Department offers a wide range of courses in French and francophone language and literature, contemporary France, cinema, and more. All courses are taught entirely in French.
Activities
The department sponsors concerts, plays, films, and lectures, open to the campus and the wider community. Students also have many other opportunities to use French outside class, including at the French tables and the Maison Française.
Students performing Ionesco's Rhinocéros in the Château theater.
Study abroad
Middlebury College has its own School in France, with sites in Paris, Poitiers, and Bordeaux. A large number of students-by no means limited to French or International Studies majors-study in France or another francophone country every year. It is possible to begin French at Middlebury and study abroad in the junior year, sometimes in combination with a summer at the French School.
Le Château
Le Château was built in 1929 as one of the first Maisons françaises in the country. It houses French Department courses, French faculty offices, and a theater for foreign language productions.
