Behaviour when Greetings: for meals and functions- Protocol
Do you want to organise a lunch, a dinner, a function?
To be successful, you had better know whom you want to invite with whom, the modalities for inviting them, welcoming them, what your guests are expecting from you, what can they appreciate.
More your social rank, more than your money, it will be your behaviour what will make you esteemed.
Learn the French way of setting a table, from the most casual to the most sophisticated, but always with elegance. How to square cutlery, bread, napkins, flowers… will express and illustrate to your guest your refinement.
Do you enjoy being greeted to a given dinner or a party? Are you invited for a week-end or for a week in a friend’s manor? 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 fortune, your social background, your look, you detain 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 for your integration in upper circles.
You have to organize a function at home, for your pleasure or on duty? In a renting place?We will help you to make the good choice of all the “ingredients” of reception, food, music, service, flowers…
Communication
Whatever the way you communicate, rules are applying: you have just to know them. Even If telephone, mobile, e-mails, have often replaced letters, they obey to rules which are good to know in the 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 you and all other courtesy formulas.
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 devoted to the educated and admired ladies of French Court from Middle-Age and developedin Versailles, and completely adapted to modern life.
