Members are invited to the Society’s Annual General Meeting, to be followed by a short talk.
Guests are most welcome to attend the AGM and talks  although, like Franco-British Society members, they are not entitled to vote.
If you have not already renewed your annual Membership (2020), please make sure to do so by Monday 19th of October.
The Franco-British Society book prize-winner 2019 will be announced after the AGM.
If you wish to attend the AGM only, please let us know at by email at francobritsoc@gmail.com.
Michael Peppiatt is an art critic and authority on Francis Bacon. He was friends with Francis Bacon from around 1963 up until his death, and his first book Francis Bacon in Your Blood is a deeply intimate memoir-biography of the most important artist of the twentieth century.
 
In The Existential Englishman, Michael chronicles his relationship with Paris in a series of vignettes structured around the half-dozen addresses he called home when he was a plucky young art critic.
 
It has had brilliant reviews, with the Evening Standard stating ‘‘If you're interested in art, or writing, or Paris, it will ring bells in your head. I loved it’.
 
Michael is also a really engaging speaker, speaking at the Royal Academy and Hatchards Piccadilly last year.
‘Engaging Peppiatt's passion for Paris, and his clear percetion of its innumerable atmospheres. The personal story is sharpened by a judicious use of the  present tense, but it is enhanced above all by a  historical vision  which enables Michael  Pepppiatt to paint the characters of several quartiers with  archaeological  precision. Even readers unacquainted with the city should be charmed by his portrait’
Gerald Mangan, Times Literary Supplement
 
‘Brings [Paris] to life so vividly you can almost smell it... Très drôle’
Lucy Davies, Daily Telegraph
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For information, The Existential Englishman- Paris Among the Artists by Michael Peppiatt : Bloomsbury Publishing. 459pp. paperback at £10.00 can be sent to you if paid to the Franco-British Society in advance. Please let us know by sending an email to francobritsoc@gmail.com if you would like us to reserve a copy.