‘Rendez-Vous Archives

June 8, 2023

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Colombo, 08 June 2023. The current edition of Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar now showing on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, takes viewers on a visit of two of the most beautiful gardens in Sri Lanka and France – Geoffrey’s Bawa’s Lunuganga in […]

November 25, 2021

This month’s edition of Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar, on Tuesday 30th November at 7.00 pm on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, makes a journey to the hill capital Kandy to the Alliance Française de Kandy. A venue of historical significance in […]

August 24, 2021

Colombo. 24 August. ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’ this month is also a Rendez-Vous with Sri Lanka’s internationally renowned singing duo, the de Lanerolle Brothers, Rohan and Ishan, as the show journeys up their family tree to a 17th century French naval expedition to Ceylon. This was during the reign of King […]

July 28, 2021

Colombo. Wednesday 28 July 2021. ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’ is all about fashion this month. Talking of French fashion, there’s a famous quote by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the Finance Minister to King Louis XIV of France, way back in 1665, that sums it all. He said “Fashion is to France what the […]

June 28, 2021

Colombo. Monday 28 June 2021. Sri Lanka’s internationally celebrated film maker and former Ambassador to France the francophone Sumitra Peries goes down Memory Lane this month on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’. Hosted on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the show uploads at 7.00 pm […]

May 3, 2021

Colombo. Monday 03rd May 2021. The Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives last Friday (30 April) proudly launched ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’, a Franco-Sri Lankan talk show, on its YouTube channel. Hosted monthly, this show, as its name suggests, will be a ‘meeting place’ and highlight Franco-Sri Lankan bilateral […]

Lunuganga and Giverny, now on Rendez-Vous with Yasmin & Kumar

It’s all about France in Kandy !

De Lanerolle Brothers on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin & Kumar’

French fashion on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’

Sumitra Peries on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’

French Embassy launches ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’