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Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 8

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Cortés sets out to conquer Mexico with his four hundred men, sixteen horses, and seven cannons. He is joined later by native forces, the Totonac warriors.

Il était une fois: Notre Terre - 25. Technologies - Part 4

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Technology not only helps clean up our planet, but also allows us to explore the entire universe. According to the astrophysicist Alfred Vidal-Madjar, in five hundred years, we will have visited all the planets in the solar system.

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 13. Stephenson - Part 7

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

France

This last part of the Il était une fois episode on George Stephenson deals with the Rainhill Trials, a competition that determined what kind of trains (steam engines or locomotives) would be used on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Stephenson proves to be the best competitor.
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Caption 32 [en]: The TGV [High-Speed Train], I told you, three hundred [kilometers] per hour.
Caption 32 [fr]: Le TGV [Train à Grande Vitesse], je tidé [slang for "je t'ai dit"], trois cents à l'heure.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 13. Stephenson - Part 6

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

This next part of the Il était une fois series on George Stephenson deals with the Rainhill Trials, a competition that determined what kind of trains (steam engines or locomotives) would be used on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 31 [en]: A locomotive contest. -A prize of five hundred pounds. Oh, nice amount!
Caption 31 [fr]: Un concours de locomotive. -Un prix de cinq cents livres. Oh, jolie somme!

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 13. Stephenson - Part 4

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

George Stephenson tries out his invention, a steam locomotive. He allows his son, Robert, to ride on it as long as he stays on the edge of the carriage and gets ready to jump off if the rails buckle under the weight of the locomotive... which they do. Luckily his son followed his instructions!
Matches in Transcript
Caption 25 [en]: Several hundred pounds. Uh... a thousand, maybe?
Caption 25 [fr]: Plusieurs centaines de livres. Euh... mille peut-être?

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 13. Stephenson - Part 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Years of research and trial and error culminated in the invention of the first locomotive on rails. Not bad for a father-and-son experiment. That's what Murdoch and his son George achieved in 1797.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 26 [en]: The first public train on rails, which will run in eighteen hundred three
Caption 26 [fr]: Le premier train public sur rails qui va circuler en mille huit cent trois

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 7

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Tension is building between the Aztecs and the Spaniards, not to mention within Cortés's own ranks. Despite this, the conquistador rallies his troops to conquer Mexico.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 22 [en]: As for you, Sandoval, you stay here with one hundred of our men to protect our rear guard.
Caption 22 [fr]: Quant à toi, Sandoval, tu restes ici avec cent de nos hommes pour assurer nos arrières.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 4

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

November 18, 1518... Cortés, the ambitious adventurer, sets out to discover and conquer the unknown empire of Mexico at daybreak before Velasquez has a chance to stop him.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 4 [en]: And here he is on this November eighteenth, fifteen hundred eighteen,
Caption 4 [fr]: Et le voici en ce dix-huit novembre mille cinq cent dix-huit,

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Aztecs are apprehensive about the arrival of the white men. It is a bad omen. Spanish conqueror Cortés is appointed Captain and will be heading toward new territories.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 1 [en]: Fifteen hundred eighteen. It's only one year until Magellan will leave Seville.
Caption 1 [fr]: Mille cinq cent dix-huit. Ce n'est que dans un an que Magellan va quitter Séville.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Maestro recounts the events just before Ferdinand Magellan's untimely death in 1521, only a year after he discovered the passage that would allow him to circumnavigate the globe.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 2 [en]: On November twenty-first, fifteen hundred twenty, the passage is finally discovered.
Caption 2 [fr]: Le vingt et un novembre mille cinq cent vingt est enfin découvert le passage.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

This new episode of "Il était une fois..." covers Cortés and the Aztecs. The story starts in 1519, when Ferdinand Magellan attempts to circumnavigate the earth. His ship makes it as far as Brazil.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 2 [en]: So here are the boats that, in fifteen hundred nineteen, will leave the port of Seville.
Caption 2 [fr]: Voici donc les bateaux qui, en quinze cent dix-neuf, vont quitter le port de Séville.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 7

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

James Bruce, the intrepid Scottish explorer, finally reaches his goal, the source of the Nile... or so he thought. After all his trouble, his exploits are not well received in England. But his legacy will live on.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 44 [en]: It will take nearly a hundred years to discover the White Nile's.
Caption 44 [fr]: Il faudra attendre encore presque cent ans pour connaître celle du Nil blanc.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In this episode of the "Once Upon a Time" animated series on world explorers, we begin to learn the history of Cairo and the Nile River in Egypt.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 46 [en]: Four hundred sixty years before our era,
Caption 46 [fr]: Quatre cent soixante ans avant notre ère,

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 9

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Galileo is in prison. He tries one more time to prove his theories to his inquisitor. But he finally recants during the trial saying the famous sentence: "and yet... it turns"
Matches in Transcript
Caption 18 [en]: When we ride in a carriage a hundred times slower,
Caption 18 [fr]: Quand nous roulons en carrosse cent fois moins vite,

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 7

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Galileo is under close scrutiny because of his Copernican views. Unfazed, he carries on his research and his teachings. Will the Inquisition bring his demise or will his powerful friends, Pope Urban VIII among them, protect him?
Matches in Transcript
Caption 35 [en]: Sixteen hundred twenty-four. He will visit in Rome Maffeo Barberini,
Caption 35 [fr]: Seize cent vingt-quatre. Il va rendre visite à Rome à Maffeo Barberini,
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