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Lionel - à la Citadelle de Bitche - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to a bakery, not the modern kind, but one located beneath the citadel of Bitche. The four giant ovens could each bake five hundred rations a day to feed up to two thousand soldiers!

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Adrien - Le métro parisien

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Adrien will tell you everything about the Paris metro, which opened its doors in nineteen hundred for the World's Fair. It carries an impressive five million passengers per day and is one of the busiest underground systems in the world.

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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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Les Restos du Cœur - 31ème campagne

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Restos du Cœur, founded by comedian Coluche in 1985, are still going strong. The non-profit organisation Restos du Coeur have distributed over one hundred twenty-eight million balanced meals to the disadvantaged in France. Since Coluche died in 1986, volunteers have continued his legacy and helped thousands of people.

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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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Lionel et Chantal - à Frémestroff

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel introduces us to the tiny village of Frémestroff, which has three hundred seven inhabitants and is located twenty-five kilometers from the German border. It boasts one farm, one bakery, a woodworker, and a shepherd. Some of the older residents have a distinctive accent and still speak a dialect from the Lorraine that resembles German.

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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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Ferme de la Croix de Pierre - Les lapins

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Have you ever wondered where the wool from your luxurious angora sweater comes from? At the Ferme de la Croix, a lovely lady breeds angora rabbits and goats on her farm. She explains the shearing process and how she cares for her pets. We learn that one rabbit can yield forty balls of angora wool every hundred days. That's a lot of sweaters!

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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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TV8 Mont Blanc - Randonnée à la cascade de Bérard

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Tourists can enjoy the Bérard waterfall in the Alps once again. At a cost of one hundred fifty thousand euros, a new footbridge leading to the waterfall and the Cave of Farinet was recently inaugurated.

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Le Journal - Le dernier ancien combattant/14-18

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Neighbors, friends, and the people of France remember Lazare Ponticelli, the last Poilu, who saw one hundred and ten springtimes and two world wars before passing away in March of 2008.

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Le Journal - La traite humaine

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Viewer Discretion Advised

Immigrants who travel clandestinely from Turkey to Great Britain often pay a far steeper price than the five hundred euros demanded by traffickers.

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Le Journal - La chasse aux loups

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Two hundred sheep jumped to their death in the French Alps. Even though no predator was seen, wolves in the Alps have been causing a lot of controversy lately. Should we just allow Mother Nature to maintain the circle of life? Or should wolves be hunted and killed to protect the sheep and their shepherds?

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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.

Matches in Transcript

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.

Matches in Transcript

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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