Behaviour when Greetings: for meals and functions- Protocol
Do you want to organise a lunch, a dinner, a function?
To be successful, you know whom you want to invite with whom, the modalities for inviting them, welcoming them, what your guests are expecting from you. They will have a great time.
More your social rank, more what you earn, it will be your behaviour what will make you appreciated.
Learn the French way of setting a table, from the most casual to the most sophisticated, but always with elegance. How to arrage cutlery, bread, napkins, flowers… will express and illustrate to your guests your refinement.
Behaviour when being entertained or invited for a stay.
Do you enjoy being invited to a given dinner or a party? Are you invited for a week-end or for a week in a friend’s manor? It is better you know what is appreciated, the subtle rules of politeness which show to your hosts that your are the ideal guest, missed when you will have left them.click here
Art of conversation
Whatever your style of living, your social background, your look, you assets that have to be valorised in social life: the 'society', whether in Paris or in the 'Province', is potentialy open to those able to handle subtlety and assertiveness. But you have to avoid mistakes. The way you introduce yourself, your ability to speak at the right moment, to deliver even a serious speech in a light way, your courtesy will be determinant in your integration in upper circles.
You have to organize a function at home, for your pleasure or for business? In a rented place?We will help you to make the choice of all the “ingredients” of reception, food, music, service, flowers…
Communication
Whatever the way you communicate, rules apply: you have just to know them. Even If telephone, mobile, e-mails, have often replaced letters, they obey rules which are good to know in daily life.
In important circumstances of life, letters are the only acceptable way to communicate. Hence the importance to know how to begin, to address, to introduce yourself and all other courtesy formulas.
French galanterie
Gentlemen, to be modern, be galant!. At the time of gender equality, la Galanterie is genuinely appreciated, even – and especially! - by the most emancipated women. Learn the art of 'baisemain', and other marks of Courtesy, that were given to the educated and admired ladies of French Court from Middle-Ages and developedin Versailles, and completely adapted to the modern life.
Enjoy advices of an"exceptional"florist,who denies all rules of the classic flower Art to enter in the poetry of a sophistacated bunch of flowers,through perfume,rarity,simplicity.He will share with you passion and knowledge.
A new vision of Art of Flower
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