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Sophie et Patrice - Le tarot de Marseille

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Sophie has just bought a deck of Marseille tarot cards, which she's very excited about. However, Patrice is a little skeptical, since Marseille is "renowned for its lies." He references the expression C'est la sardine qui a bouché le port de Marseille (The sardine blocked the port of Marseille), referring to its inhabitants' supposed tendency to exaggerate.

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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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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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Automne et Soline - Mer ou océan ?

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Automne and Soline would both like to live by the sea, or even better, by the ocean in Tahiti. If only it weren't so far away!

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Caption 70 [fr]: Ben pour la mer, y a Marseille.
Caption 70 [en]: Well, for the sea, there's Marseille.

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Automne et Soline - Les vacances de Pâques

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Soline and Automne discuss their Easter holiday plans. They will spend some of the time together and organize some fun outings.

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Caption 6 [fr]: Moi, je vais aller à Marseille avec...
Caption 6 [en]: I'm going to go to Marseille, with...

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Lionel L - Les homonymes et homophones

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel explains the concept of homonyms and homophones in French, using the examples of leur, leurs, leurre, l'heure and l'heur.

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Caption 18 [fr]: les leurs à Marseille.
Caption 18 [en]: theirs in Marseille.

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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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Lionel L - Le couvre-feu

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel describes the latest measures taken by the French government regarding the COVID pandemic. A curfew has been enforced in major cities in an effort to contain the virus.

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Caption 22 [fr]: Saint-Étienne, Marseille, Aix, Lyon et son agglomération,
Caption 22 [en]: Saint-Étienne, Marseille, Aix, Lyon and its urban area,

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