Site Utile: Corrige-moi

For a speedy online French spell check, visit Corrige Moi, le correcteur orthographique multilingue! Simply type or copy and paste your French into the text field and hit the “Corriger” button. The site also checks some 20 other languages, from Afrikaans to Esperanto. Every misspelt word yeilds a multitude of possibilities, and is therefore probably best used in accompaniment with multilingual dictionary Word Reference or the like.

Other free online French spell check sites include Bon Patron, which also includes grammar check, and Reverso, which forms part of Reverso’s greater site encompassing dictionnaire, conjugaison and grammaire.

Vidéo: Interview avec Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen, présidente du Front National et candidate à l’élection présidentielle, est l’invitée de Mardi politique. Elle est interrogée par Guillaume Naudin (RFI), Roselyne Febvre (France 24), Yvon Mezou (20 Minutes) et Saïd Mahrane (Le Point).

Georges Perec Melbourne Salon Wrap-up

From left: Philip Thiel, Norie Neumark,
Maria Miranda and Raphaël Trantoul

Thirty years after Georges Perec visited the Alliance Française de Melbourne, Perec amateurs assembled once again last night to celebrate and dissect this curious genius at “Georges Perec: The Australian Connection, 30 Years On”.

A panel featuring some of La Trobe’s finest, Norie Neumark, Maria Miranda and Raphaël Trantoul, examined Perec’s enduring popularity in Australia, where his books have per capita sold more than anywhere else in the anglophone world. Our love of his gameplay was one hypothesis which arose over the course of the evening’s tantilising discussion.

The evening also featured an alternately moving and hilarious atelier d’écriture, comprising a series of Perecquian literary challenges, such as writing a poem using only the letters of your name.

Finally, listen to SBS French’s interview with Kerry Mullen and Raphaël to discover more about The Melbourne Salon series and, naturellement, Perec.

Vidéo: Au Revoir Pauline

In our first YouTube video, students from La Trobe’s French department farewell tutor and honorary club member, Pauline Balan. Merci à Raphaël pour la vidéo!

2012 La Trobe French Subject: “France in Film”

Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette will be
studied in week 3 of France in Film

Offered for the first time in 2012, “France in Film: The Invention of France 1789-1919” is an innovative subject, available for either History or French credit.

Devised by Raphaël Trantoul and Ian Coller with both French-speaking and non-French-speaking students in mind, the subject’s lectures will be delivered in English, while tutorials will be split according to language (French students’ tutorials will be conducted in French, History students’ tutorials in English).

Running in semester 1, the syllabus will cover the history of France from the French Revolution to the First World War and will encompass such films as Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Danton, The Other Dumas and Jean Renoir’s French Cancan.

Enquires regarding this subject should be directed to Ian Coller at i.coller@latrobe.edu.au. Click “read more” for the official subject description and poster.

Vidéo: Alain Delon et Romy Schneider

A l’aéroport de Nice, Alain Delon attend Romy Schneider, sa partenaire dans le film de Jacques Deray, La piscine. Interview des deux acteurs, visiblement émus mais heureux de se retrouver. Watch the trailer for La Piscine below!

SBS Podcast: Waffle maker Marc Laucher

Waffle On, just outside Flinders subway

Dans ce nouvel épisode de la série “A Table!”, Frédéric Suteau parle à Marc Laucher sur une petite de douceur de Belgique: La Gaufre de Liege façon Waffle On.

“A Table!” is a regular podcast on SBS French with a Melbourne-based French chef or culinary personality. In this episode, Marc (originally from Versailles) discusses his métier, his life and the difficulties of using Australian flour. His store, Waffle On, is a waffle and sandwich spot in Melbourne’s CBD on Degraves Street.

In other SBS news, you can now download the free “SBS Your Language” mobile app to listen to SBS French anytime or anywhere! Features of the app include live 24/7 streaming, program catch-up, podcasts and program reminder notifications. Available from iTunes.

Vidéo: Interview avec Simone de Beauvoir

Jean-Louis Servan Schreiber reçoit dans son émission “Questionnaire” la philosophe et écrivain Simone de Beauvoir, venue parler des raisons de son engagement en tant que féministe.

Melbourne Event: Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir and “The Second Sex”

Les traductrices, Constance Borde et
Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

The French Studies and Translation Studies Programs of Monash University, the Alliance Française de Melbourne, and AALITRA (The Australian Association for Literary Translation) present an evening around Simone de Beauvoir and the new translation of Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) (London, Vintage, 2010) with the translators, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Participants in the discussion will also include members of the university and translation communities in Melbourne. Watch a fascinating talk with the translators below!

When? 6.30pm Thursday 17 November.
Where? Alliance Francaise, 51 Grey Street St Kilda.

How much? Free, bookings essential: info@afmelbourne.com.au

“Translating The Second Sex: A Discussion with the Translators of the New English Edition 
of Simone de Beauvoir’s Classic Feminist Work”. (The other eight parts of this video series are available at the Centre for Translation Studies’ youtube channel.)

Star Bilingue: John Malkovich

John Malkovich, American actor best known for his starring roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, The Killing Fields and Being John Malkovich, is stunningly fluent in French.

One of his most enduring French-speaking roles is as Javert in the 2000 miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables, co-starring Gerard Depardieu and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Watch a portion of his glacial performance below!