Festival de la Francophonie: Soiree Commune March 5, 2010

“Ma patrie, c’est la langue française,” said Albert Camus –– “My country is the French language.” The Algerian-born author understood that all French-speakers, whatever their place of birth, are united in what is called la francophonie.
La Francophonie? It’s more than 175 million French-speaking people from over fifty different countries, whose number has tripled in the last fifty years.
La Francophonie represents a carnival of cultures spanning the continents from Marrakesh to Montréal and from Toulouse to Tahiti. Join the Canadian Consulate General, the Quebec Government Office and other Chicago francophone organizations to sample food, dance to the music and try your luck at the raffle on the kick off evening to a month long-celebration of la Francophonie.
Bienvenue à tous, et que la fête commence!