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Français avec Nelly - How to Speak Like Marie Antoinette - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Dans la deuxième partie de cette vidéo sur la reine Marie-Antoinette, vous allez encore faire des découvertes fascinantes sur sa vie privée. Est-ce qu'elle a été heureuse malgré sa fin tragique ? Et comment est-ce qu'elle traitait son mari et ses enfants ? Allez découvrir ces faits sans plus tarder !

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Uderzo et Goscinny - 1968

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Pour commémorer la mort du célèbre Uderzo, co-créateur d'Astérix. Dans un vieil interview, Uderzo and Goscinny expliquent comment la bande dessinée Astérix est née. Il paraît qu'Astérix était bien plus grand au début et qu'il a été réduit de moitié.

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Français avec Nelly - How to Speak Like Marie Antoinette - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In part one of this video, you will learn how Austrian-born queen Marie Antoinette, whose native language was German, came to speak very good French. How did she do it? Watch this video and get inspired!

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Caption 100 [fr]: en plus de regarder la chaîne de Nelly,
Caption 100 [en]: in addition to watching Nelly's channel,

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France 3 - Minitel : l'Internet avant l'heure - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Back in the 80s, nearly every French household had a Minitel. It was the first computerized directory of its kind and a precursor to the modern computer. Later on, even Google showed an interest in the Minitel archives. Find out how advanced it was in its day.

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Caption 38 [fr]: C'est resté l'ordinateur le plus puissant du monde
Caption 38 [en]: It remained the most powerful computer in the world

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France 3 - Minitel : l'Internet avant l'heure - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Have you ever heard of the Minitel? In this video, you'll discover vintage technology from the seventies and eighties. Though once state of the art, the poor Minitel is now gathering dust in people's attics...

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Caption 63 [fr]: Ou alors peut-être que ce que je trouve le plus dingue,
Caption 63 [en]: Or maybe what I find the craziest

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Le Figaro - Les cinq scènes historiquement fausses du «Napoléon» de Ridley Scott - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

France

In part 2 of this review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, we learn why Napoleon really left the island of Elba and how he dealt with the death of his wife Josephine.

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Caption 79 [fr]: encore plus celle de Napoléon.
Caption 79 [en]: even more so that of Napoleon.

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Le Figaro - Les cinq scènes historiquement fausses du «Napoléon» de Ridley Scott - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Director Ridley Scott's recently released movie Napoleon was never intended to be historically accurate. Find out where the movie departs from the facts.

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Caption 19 [fr]: sous la Terreur, plus précisément en mille sept cent quatre-vingt-treize,
Caption 19 [en]: during the Terror, more precisely, in seventeen ninety-three,

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Le Monde - Comment la Marche des Beurs a révélé la crise des banlieues - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In 1983, the murder of an Algerian immigrant on a train galvanized a massive anti-racism protest that led to significant government reforms. But racism remains a serious problem in France to this day.

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Caption 19 [fr]: pour les accueillir, plus de soixante mille personnes
Caption 19 [en]: to welcome them, over sixty thousand people

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Le Monde - Comment la Marche des Beurs a révélé la crise des banlieues - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

On October 15, 1983, a dozen people set out from Marseille to march against racism and police violence. En route to Paris, they met many people who, to their surprise, were sympathetic to their cause.

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Caption 31 [fr]: Deux mois plus tard,
Caption 31 [en]: Two months later,

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Le Monde - Comment la Marche des Beurs a révélé la crise des banlieues - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In 1983, the Marche des Beurs highlighted the problem of anti-Arab racism in France. Forty years on, the country is still feeling its effects.

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Caption 17 [fr]: Mais, quarante ans plus tard,
Caption 17 [en]: But, forty years later,

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Professeur Joseph Melone - L'origine du mot France

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Professor Joseph Melone explains to us how countries got their name. He shares some very interesting insights on the origin of the name "France," coming from the word franc.

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Caption 36 [fr]: du coup, qui ramènerait plus tard à l'idée de hardi,
Caption 36 [en]: so, which would later lead to the idea of being bold,

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Vidéméra - Histoire et origine du sapin de Noël

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In this video, you will discover the origins of the Christmas tree. This tradition dates back to Roman times, when people used to decorate their houses with conifer branches to celebrate the winter solstice.

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Caption 55 [fr]: et je vous dis à plus.
Caption 55 [en]: and I'll see you later.

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La disparition de Saint-Exupéry - Découverte et identification de son avion - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In part 2 of this video on the disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, you will find out how the remains of his plane were located and retrieved from the bottom of the sea.

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Caption 44 [fr]: après plus de soixante-dix ans
Caption 44 [en]: after more than seventy years

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Le saviez-vous? - Gérard raconte le développement moderne d'Antibes - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Gérard explains the development of Antibes culminating in the creation of Sophia Antipolis, a kind of science park that changed the face of the city and created a traffic nightmare.

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Caption 16 [fr]: grâce aux fleurs qu'on ne voit plus aujourd'hui,
Caption 16 [en]: thanks to the flowers, which we no longer see today,

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Télé Lyon Métropole - Un manuscrit vieux de 1200 ans découvert à Lyon

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In the process of relocating its archives, the diocese of Lyon discovered a thousand-year-old parchment dating from the time of Charlemagne.

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Caption 4 [fr]: et plus largement, de l'archevêché
Caption 4 [en]: and more broadly, of the archdiocese,

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