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

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

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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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Le saviez-vous? - La Marseillaise - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia discusses the history of the the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," explaining how the song traveled from the Rhine region to Marseille, where it earned its final name. She even sings a few lines of the song for us!

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Le Journal - Saint-Exupéry - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Le dernier Lockheed P-38 Lightning piloté par le célèbre écrivain Saint-Exupéry, qui s’est probablement écrasé avec lui quand il a disparu le 31 Juillet 1944 a été retrouvé et identifié au large de Marseille. Ceci accrédite la thèse d’un pêcheur local, qui, six années auparavant, affirmait avoir repêché le bracelet de l’écrivain dans cette zone.

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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 18 [fr]: Il débarque à Marseille à dix-neuf ans, sans papiers.
Caption 18 [en]: He disembarks in Marseille at nineteen, without papers.

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Lionel - La Marseillaise

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel discusses the life of Rouget de Lisle, composer of the Marseillaise. Written in 1792 as a march to spur on the troops during the war with Austria, only later did it become the French national anthem. And did you know that the Marseillaise was banned by Napoleon?

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Caption 40 [en]: In the beginning, it was of course the "March of the People of Marseille."
Caption 40 [fr]: Au départ, c'était bien sûr la « Marche des Marseillois ».

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Français avec Nelly - La Marseillaise - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Just in time for Bastille Day, Nelly explains the history of "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem, including how it got its name.

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Caption 59 [en]: A battalion from Marseille arrives in Paris
Caption 59 [fr]: Un bataillon marseillais arrive à Paris

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Le saviez-vous? - Le dernier duel à l'épée pour l'honneur en France

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In centuries past, when a person's honor was offended, he would challenge the culprit to a duel. The last duel in France took place as recently as 1967, between two respected politicians!

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Caption 40 [fr]: Gaston Defferre est maire de Marseille,
Caption 40 [en]: Gaston Defferre is mayor of Marseille,

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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 9 [fr]: de Marseille à Paris.
Caption 9 [en]: from Marseille to Paris.

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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 102 [fr]: le DRASSM, donc la Direction des recherches archéologiques et sub-aquatiques de Marseille,
Caption 102 [en]: DRASSM, so the Archaeological and Sub-Aquatic Research Department of Marseille,

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La disparition de Saint-Exupéry - Découverte et identification de son avion - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In May 2000, Luc Vanrell discovered the P Thirty-Eight Lightning aircraft piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which was last seen on July 31, 1944. His colleague Philippe Castellano explains how the plane was identified.

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Caption 44 [en]: had to lie on the Riou sector [island off the coast of Marseille].
Caption 44 [fr]: devait résider sur le secteur de Riou.

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Le saviez-vous? - Gérard raconte Antibes et ses environs

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Gérard will tell you about the history of Antibes, an ancient city with a fascinating past. One of the oldest cities in the region, it was built by the Phocaeans before Roman times.

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Caption 2 [fr]: pour faire une halte en fait entre la Corse et Marseille.
Caption 2 [en]: to create a stopover, actually, between Corsica and Marseille.

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Le Journal - Saint-Exupéry - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Sixty years after the disappearance of literary great Saint-Exupéry, a commemoration is held on the Mediterranean Sea at the spot where his airplane fell.

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Caption 2 [fr]: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry a disparu au large de Marseille il y a maintenant soixante ans.
Caption 2 [en]: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared off the coast of Marseilles sixty years ago now.

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