Letter from France
Richard Thompson reflects on an interesting year for French Quakers
Lots of positive developments in France! At our Yearly Meeting in July at Nantes we studied the Foundations of a True Social Order (Quaker faith & practice 23.16) and shared lots of self-questioning about what we considered our strong and weak points. We brought and pinned up posters about our activities in different Quaker groups in France, had lively reports from the Quaker Council for European Affairs, the Friends World Committee for Consultation’s European and Middle East Section (EMES) and the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. We also visited the Anti-Slavery Memorial in the centre of Nantes, which includes a statement from Quakers. This visit was reported in the local press along with a general article about Quakers in France. Our Yearly Meeting sent off a communiqué to the French press and to François Hollande, as follows:
