Tuesday 23rd September 2025 at 7pm

Pot d’acceuil – Les Jeunes racontent

Our 2025-2026 lecture series begins with Crémant de Bordeaux and canapés, following which students benefitting from the Alexander Gray Bequest last year will give presentations in French about where they went and what they did to improve their spoken French.

All new members welcome.

Tuesday October 14th 2025 at 7pm

Conservation: from Gabon to Guardbridge

Professor Lee White C.B.E, Honorary Professor at Stirling University, finalist for this year’s Indianapolis Prize and until recently Minister of Water, Forest, the Sea and Environment in the government of Gabon, will give an illustrated talk in English and French on his extensive conservation work in Africa and beyond, and the urgent need to protect Earth’s natural resources from corruption, ignorance and malpractice.

Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7pm

Une question d’Identité : reflexions entre deux langues

Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger, Senior Lecturer in French, St Andrews University, will explore questions of cultural and linguistic identity by reading extracts from her latest book of creative writing in French (Twenty twenty: Petites Traversées Franco-Britanniques, Créaphis Editions) and contextualising in English.

Tuesday  2nd  December 2025 at 12.30 p.m.

Members’ pre-Christmas lunch

Hotel Du Vin,  The Scores, St Andrews

Tuesday 27th  January 2026  at  7pm.

Unicorns and Cloth of Gold, Tartan and Tweed

Jan Shelley, formerly Head of Textile Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee University, will give an illustrated talk in English tracing the development of textiles and trade in Scotland and France from the Medieval Court to the present day.

Tuesday 17th February 2026  at  7pm.

Pirate wars: France, Scotland and England in the Late Middle Ages

Chris Given-Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Hisory at St Andrews University, will give an illustrated talk in English on skulduggery in the North Sea in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Wednesday 25th February 2026 – Buchanan Theatre, St Andrews at 6.30pm

The St Andrews French Society presents  ‘ Un Fil à La Patte’ by Georges Feydeau. Directed by Claire Mizrahi

Tuesday 17th March 2026 at 7pm

Traduire en Justice: How should we deal with unstoppable march of English?

Dr. Oisìn Keohane, Lecturer in Philosophy at Dundee University and a member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, will discuss in English and French linguistic politics and translation problems arising from globalisation with reference to Barbara Cassin’s ‘Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies’

Tuesday 14th April 2026 at 7 pm

St. Andrews French Society presents excepts from its most recent play “Un Fil à la Patte”.

This play is a three act farce by Georges Feydeau written at the end of the 19th century but whose characters still feel strikingly modern today.

This production is directed by Claire Mizrahi

Tuesday 5th May 2026 7pm

Annual General Meeting

St. Leonard’s Church Hall, Hepburn Gardens,

(Corner Donaldson Gardens), St. Andrews.

Members Only