This evening, Thursday, April 25, Smith’s Ciné-Club Français presents Les Adieux a la Reine, a film based on the novel by Chantal Thomas. Les Adieux a la Reine depicts the French Revolution and the last days of Marie Antoinette through the eyes of Sidonie, the queen’s personal reader and very close friend.
The film is in French with English subtitles and will be shown at 7 p.m. in Seelye 106. All are welcome.
Then, on Friday, April 26, the Smith College Museum of Art hosts another of its Student Picks: From Tissot to Toulouse-Lautrec: Fashion Focus in 19th-century French Art by Amanda Garcia ’16. The show is a one-day student-curated show of works on paper from the Museum’s permanent collection. It will include prints that showcase women’s contemporary fashion trends in late 19th-century France and works by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Tissot, and Edgar Degas will be represented. The show can be viewed in the Cunningham Center at the Museum of Art from noon to 4 p.m. on Friday.
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