Category: announcements

On September 24^th last year, we hosted our annual Freshers’ Welcome Drinks, as part of the University’s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate.

After a successful first event there in 2021, we returned to the Fondation Goodplanet in the Bois de Boulogne, in the grounds of the Château de Longchamp.

Over several hours on a (surprisingly dry) afternoon, freshers had an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to Society members about their experience in Cambridge.

We are grateful to our long-standing committee member Peter Salinson who organised the event and shared anecdotes of his time at Cambridge with the freshers in attendance.

 

Matthew Kay

President, Cambridge Society of Paris

2^nd January 2023

 

After a prolonged COVID gap, and for the first time since 2019, we were delighted to bring back our annual carol singing last Monday 12^th December, organised in conjunction with our friends at the Oxford University Society of Paris.

Turnout was fantastic, with 100 in attendance drawn from the Cambridge and Oxford alumni societies (and friends from other associations.) Across a little over an hour of singing we enjoyed mulled wine and mince pies at the splendid Travellers Club, led by musical coordinators John Thompson and Christopher Wells.

We are very grateful as ever to the wonderful Edward Archer for organising, and of course to musicians Madeleine Bergna, Christine Peiffer, David Morgan-Smith, and Odile Wells.

 

Matthew Kay

President, Cambridge Society of Paris

2^nd January 2023