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November 10, 2026, 7:00 pm

Soirée d’automne at the Marlton “Chez Nous” with Margot Sergent

5 West 8th Street
(Between 5th & 6th Aves.)
New York, NY 10011

Take advantage of the Member + Guest offering.

Menu:
Brochettes d’agneau
Crudo de Coquilles St. Jacques
Gougères de Parmesan
Tartare de boeuf
Plateau de fromages
Confiseries

A multi award-winning classical musician, Margot Sergent started her music education at four years old. At eight, she appeared in one of France’s most popular national TV shows. She received a “Performance Award “at the exclusive Ecole Normale/Alfred Cortot University, where world famous composer Michel Damase was among the jury members.

She has participated in tours with Archie Shepp’s protegee, Monica Passos, and number-one pop selling artist in France Nolwenn Leroy. Noticed by famed jazz pianist Kirk Lightsey and Pierre Boussaguet (bass player for Michel Legrand) during a jam performance at the Jazz Gallery of Berlinval, Margot was encouraged by her mentors to get a more complete jazz education.

Before moving from Paris to New York City in 2015, Margot attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying songwriting and jazz improvisation, and vocal performance with Maggie Scott, former vocal teacher to Diana Krall and Esperanza Spalding. In December 2022, Margot performed the show “From Paris With Love” at The Cutting Room, and “The Margot Sergent Trio: A Parisian Cabaret Revival” at City Vineyard.

Margot has also performed for prestigious luxury brands such as Cartier, in historical places such as Musée du Louvre, Musée Carnavalet, Hotel Bristol with prestigious agencies such as Ivanna Music, and Absolut Live in Paris, and Hanklane Music in NY.

We return to the intimate and elegant Marlton seven years later for our fall cocktail dînatoire, this time with Margot, two years after she sang for us in 2024.

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December 8, 2026, 7:00 pm

Dinner at the National Arts Club

The Rebirth of Notre-Dame

Michel Picaud – President, Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris

Michel is the founding president of Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, the 501(c)(3) charity created in 2016 to help fund the much-needed restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Over the past nine years, Michel has stewarded the restoration and preservation of this iconic cathedral through Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris’s activities at an international level, especially with the strong commitment of supporters in the United States.

He will walk us through the rich history of Notre-Dame since the first stone was laid in 1163 in presence of the visionary Bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, and Pope Alexander III. The site of some of the most important events in European history, Notre-Dame progressively fell into disrepair over the centuries, and the major restoration undertaken by architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century was not sufficient enough to stop her decay.

Michel will share the dramatic circumstances of the terrible fire on April 15, 2019, that he personally experienced on the square in front of the Cathedral. He will describe the different steps taken since that night to launch one of the most significant monument restoration projects in Europe. He will give us his personal insights on the significance of Notre-Dame. He will tell us about the historical Cathedral’s reopening to believers and to visitors from around the world in December 2024, and he will highlight what still needs to be done to realize a full restoration of the Cathedral before the end of the decade. When this great undertaking is achieved, Notre-Dame’s role as part of the world heritage and as a beacon of faith for Christians will be restored for the whole world.

Michel Picaud, President, Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris

Michel Picaud is President of Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds to accelerate the restoration of the iconic Paris cathedral, a position he has held since its incorporation in October 2016.

Prior to that Michel served as COO for International Markets of the Demos Group, one of the main European learning and development companies, and as President and CEO of HR Access Solutions, a leading Human Resources software provider part of Fidelity Investments. Michel was also SVP for Orange Business Services/Equant, CEO of Alcatel Réseaux d’Entreprise. He worked for the Bosch Telecom Group in France and in Germany.

He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique Paris, Mines ParisTech and Telecom ParisTech. He has been distinguished in 2025 as Officer of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and he has been awarded also in 2025 the Lafayette Washington Medal of French American Cultural diplomacy by the French American Cultural Foundation for his contribution to the Notre-Dame de Paris restoration.

He is married and is the proud father of four sons and two daughters and grandfather of three granddaughters.

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January 5, 2027 at 7:00 pm

Dinner at the National Arts Club

State of the Club and Galettes des Rois

Join us for an update on the state of the club and enjoy Galettes des Rois.

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January 11, 2027 at 6:00 pm

Book Club at The Algonquin

59 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036

The Barman of the Ritz by Phillipe Collin will be discussed.

Registration includes a beverage and snack.

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