At Marva’s invitation, Gérard Pouchain, Professeur agrégé de Lettres modernes, Paris, offers two talks in French « Autour de Victor Hugo » on April 15, 2005, in the Rotunda Lower West Oval Room:
- La caricature au service de la gloire, ou Victor Hugo raconté par le portrait-charge, at 10 :00 a.m.
- Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet : Cinquante ans de lettres d’amour, at 2 :00 a.m.
For details in French, see the poster ». The events are free and open to the public.
A reception will follow at the French House, 1404 Jefferson Park Ave., at 4:15 p.m.
A specialist on the French press in the nineteenth century and Chevalier dans l’Ordre national des Palmes académiques, M. Pouchain has received several literary prizes. His Victor Hugo – Juliette Drouet, 50 ans de lettres d’amour (1833-1883) : Lettres de l’anniversaire appeared in February. He also authored Victor Hugo raconté par la caricature (Paris-Musées, 2002) and organized exhibits of Hugo in caricature that have appeared in Paris, Hong Kong, and Ottawa.
Talks sponsored by the French House, the Department of French, the Teaching Resource Center, and the Washington, DC, Alliance Française.