LEWISTON — La Rencontre will meet at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St. The meal will include roast pork, potatoes, vegetable, dessert and beverage. The cost of the meal is $7 per person. After the meal, the program will include theatrical monologues featuring Greg Chabot and Marjoline Whittlesey. Patrons are encouraged to speak only French.

Originally from France, Whittlesey has been in Maine for 10 years and is currently working as the French teacher for the Chewonki Semester School in Wiscasset, where she focuses her class around the history of French in North America. She joined the Franco-American theater troupe Du Monde d’a Cote, performing French monologues and one act plays in New England and Canada under the direction of Gregoire Chabot.

Chabot was born in Waterville and was educated in local parochial schools. He started writing and performing skits for a bimonthly Franco-American radio program at WFCR-FM in Amherst in the early 70s. He then wrote three plays for and about Franco-Americans that were published by the National Materials Development Center for French and Portuguese.

Chabot is a founding member and current creative director of the Franco theater troupe, “Du Monde d’a Cote,” and has performed with the troupe in France, Louisiana, Quebec and New Brunswick, as well as throughout New England. He has completed two new plays in French: “Qui perd sa langue… ” and “Tout comme au bon vieux temps.” Chabot has also finished work on a contemporary Franco-American novel, “Une vie allant vers.” He is currently an independent marketing communications consultant/writer, living in South Hampton, N.H.

Everyone is invited to attend La Rencontre and reservations can be made by calling Claudette Violette at 786-6936 or the center at 783-1585.