La Maison Française marks a century of creating cultural connections for students and the broader Madison community.
“The House is really all its name implies, for no matter how little or how much we try to learn or how little or how much we speak French, everyone absorbs a certain quantity of the sort of French that is rarely learned on this side of the Atlantic.”
This statement could have come from anyone who has lived at or visited the French House, a nonprofit French-immersion residence run by members of the UW-Madison Department of French and Italian. But, incredibly, it was written by one of the first residents in the summer of 1918.