Difficulty: Intermediate
France
We continue our visit to Médan where Daniel Benchimol takes us to the Dreyfus Museum, inaugurated in October 2021. There, you will discover a sad part of French history when anti-Semitism was rife.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Join Lionel and Roger in front of the Domrémy basilica dedicated to Joan of Arc. You will find out some more about her family, as well as a surprising fact about Roger's!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
We continue our visit to Médan, where you will discover some perfectly preserved wash houses, among other things.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Lionel is with Roger in the town of Domrémy, the birthplace of Joan of Arc. You will discover the statue of the three saints who spoke to Joan at the age of thirteen and a half, as legend has it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Daniel Benchimol takes us to Médan, a small town to the north of Paris. In addition to a few fifteenth-century landmarks, this town attracted famous poets and writers. Among those writers was Émile Zola, although in this video, he's featured in another capacity that might surprise you.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Cyril and Lionel end our visit to the citadel by showing us where the officers of the garrison slept. And why not take them up on their invitation to visit the citadel in person during your future travels?
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Lionel takes us to a bakery, not the modern kind, but one located beneath the citadel of Bitche. The four giant ovens could each bake five hundred rations a day to feed up to two thousand soldiers!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Cyril walks us through the underground passages where livestock was kept and troops were housed during the 1870-71 siege of Bitche.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
We continue our tour of the citadel of Bitche deep in its underground passages, which contain a large well that dates from the Middle Ages.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
You will discover in this video the great history of Bitche, a medieval city in the east of France. Its citadel, an important line of defense in the Thirty Years' War, was rebuilt on the ruins of a castle dating back to the twelfth century.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
In the final episode of this series on the Clog Maker's Museum, you'll see many kinds of clogs from all over Europe, including clogs for babies!
Difficulty: Advanced
France
Hilaire shows us some of the more unusual clogs at the Clog Museum, from souvenirs clogs made for American troops in World War II to clogs made for cracking chestnuts.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
We continue our visit to the Clog Museum and learn about these very old machines that are still in use today.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Sophie and Patrice share their impressions of Paris under a gray sky. They say that the multiple shades of gray make Paris all the more beautiful. Even the old buildings blackened by years of grime add texture and beauty, but they concede that a good clean-up is sometimes necessary.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Hilaire summarizes all the steps in the clog-making process. The Clog Museum has descriptions with models in relief for the blind and visually impaired.
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