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Voyage en France - Chantilly - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this video, Daniel shows us around the town of Chantilly, famous for its horse races and for its beloved Chantilly cream (also known as whipped cream). You'll get an inside look at the town's beautiful racetrack, which is home to over three hundred events each year.

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Lionel - Verdun - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel Brigeot takes us to the northeast of France to the town of Verdun, where the famous Battle of Verdun took place during World War I. Follow Lionel up the Victory Steps, commemorating the battle in which more than one hundred sixty-three thousand soldiers lost their lives.

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

Difficulty: 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.

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

Difficulty: 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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Le Monde - Pourquoi Manouchian est un héros de la résistance - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We continue with the story of the Manouchian Group, comprised of brave immigrants who joined the fight against German occupiers and the Vichy government.

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Caption 23 [en]: nearly two hundred attacks in the Paris region.
Caption 23 [fr]: près de deux cents attentats en région parisienne.

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Le Monde - Pourquoi Manouchian est un héros de la résistance - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Have you heard about Missak Manouchian, a hero of the French Resistance? Find out more about him in this fascinating historical documentary.

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Caption 92 [en]: More than three hundred thousand Jewish French people and foreigners
Caption 92 [fr]: Plus de trois cent mille Français et étrangers juifs

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Français avec Nelly - Coco Chanel - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Nelly tells the fascinating life story of French fashion icon Coco Chanel, beginning with what led to her career as a designer.

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Caption 62 [en]: in nineteen hundred three
Caption 62 [fr]: en mille neuf cent trois

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Jamy Epicurieux - La drôle d'histoire des JO (Jeux Olympiques) - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We continue our tour of the Olympic Games through the ages. Do you know when the Winter and Summer Olympics and the Paralympics were introduced? Watch this video and find out all kinds of interesting facts.

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Caption 16 [en]: a competition that brings together four hundred athletes
Caption 16 [fr]: une compétition qui rassemble quatre cents sportifs

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Jamy Epicurieux - La drôle d'histoire des JO (Jeux Olympiques) - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Jamy will share some interesting and surprising facts about the history of the Olympic Games. Did you know that a Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin started the modern Olympics in 1896?

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Caption 23 [en]: two thousand seven hundred ninety-seven years ago at Olympia in Greece,
Caption 23 [fr]: il y a deux mille sept cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept ans à Olympie en Grèce

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Le Monde - Pourquoi Molière est devenu aussi célèbre - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Molière wasn't afraid of his plays causing a scandal—in fact, he often orchestrated scandals in order to drum up publicity. Find out more about his marketing genius in this video.

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Caption 58 [en]: On the evening of the premiere, the revenues rise to two thousand eight hundred sixty pounds,
Caption 58 [fr]: Le soir de la première, les recettes montent à deux mille huit cent soixante livres,

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Le Monde - Pourquoi Molière est devenu aussi célèbre - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

How did Molière become so successful? The French playwright, whose plays are still being performed today, did not just rely on his talent as a writer—he knew how to drum up publicity for himself as well.

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Caption 3 [en]: But four hundred years later,
Caption 3 [fr]: Mais quatre cents ans plus tard,

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Lionel - Vaucouleurs - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We continue our visit to Vaucouleurs, a small town where Joan of Arc spent part of her life. Her story sparked many legends and anecdotes, one of which concerns a magical linden tree...

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Caption 5 [en]: and uh... it's been standing here majestically for six hundred years.
Caption 5 [fr]: et euh... il se dresse ici majestueusement depuis six cents ans.

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Lionel - Vaucouleurs - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We go from Domrémy, where Joan of Arc was born, to Vaucouleurs, where her story really begins. She was called to defend France even though her hometown wasn't technically part of it.

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Caption 17 [en]: in terms of the Hundred Years' War,
Caption 17 [fr]: au niveau de la guerre de Cent Ans,

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Lionel - Le musée de Jeanne d'Arc - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The second room of the Joan of Arc museum is dedicated to the iconography of the saint, including a bronze sculpture by Prosper D'Épinay.

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Caption 34 [en]: She was born between the end of the year fourteen hundred eleven,
Caption 34 [fr]: Elle est née entre la fin de l'année mille quatre cent onze,

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Lionel - Le musée de Jeanne d'Arc - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel and Nathalie take us to the Joan of Arc Museum, where you will discover many of her portraits. Interestingly, none of these portraits were made during her lifetime and nobody knows for sure what she looked like.

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Caption 37 [en]: with more than three hundred witnesses,
Caption 37 [fr]: avec plus de trois cents témoins

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