VIVE LA FRANCE SCHOOL & TRAVEL has been serving the Salt lake City are for more than a dozen years. Since 1996 Vive La France School has been teaching French to hundreds of people in the Salt Lake Valley.  The school offers all levels of French language classes and tutoring focusing on everyday French conversation. The classes are small and cozy offering abundant opportunities to interact with the instructor and other students. The School Director, Catherine Thorpe, feels that learning French should be fun and she uses her colorful French humor to encourage the French learning experience. Catherine, is a native Parisian with a master's degree in English from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She has been in the center of French activities in the Salt Lake area for more than 30 years.

Catherine takes small groups to France in early summer. This year the group will go to beautiful Burgundy with its castles, picturesque villages, rolling hills, and vineyards.

In conjunction with the Vive la France tours, award winning and well known exhibitor photographer, Don O. Thorpe will present an "on-the-road" workshop of Impressionist art and photography. Don has solo exhibited at the Springville Museum of Art, The Harris Fine Art Center, Eccles Community Art Center, and many Utah area galleries. All the photos on this website come from him.

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