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Le Monde - Comment Napoléon a conquis (et perdu) l’Europe - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

At its peak, under Napoleon, the French territory was three times as large as it is today thanks to the emperor's very successful military campaigns. What was his secret?

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Caption 20 [en]: Ulm, eighteen hundred and five.
Caption 20 [fr]: Ulm, mille huit cent cinq.

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JB - La tarte aux mirabelles

Difficulty: Beginner

France

JB shows us how to make a mirabelle plum tart, a delicious end-of-summer treat. Mirabelles are hard to find in the US, but you can substitute another type of plum.

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Caption 8 [en]: you need five hundred grams of mirabelle plums,
Caption 8 [fr]: il vous faut cinq cents grammes de mirabelles,

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Lionel L - L'argent

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel goes over some of the many slang words for "money" in French, including la moula, les bifs, and les waris. He also explains why you shouldn't try to pay with larger bills in a store.

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Caption 10 [en]: fifty, one hundred,
Caption 10 [fr]: cinquante, cent,

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Le Monde - Commune de Paris : les premières photos manipulées de l’histoire ? - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Paris Commune was one of the first extensively photographed revolutionary movements. In its infancy, photography wasn't able to capture motion, but professionals from both sides understood the power of images and used them to convey their own visions of the events.

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Caption 11 [en]: Several hundred images taken
Caption 11 [fr]: Plusieurs centaines d'images prises

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Ma femme est-elle réellement morte ? - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

André lost his wife a long time ago—or so he thought. So imagine his surprise when he sees her on a game show. Curious, he meets Delphine, the game show host, who helps him explore some possible explanations.

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Caption 23 [en]: They went through studio one hundred seven.
Caption 23 [fr]: Ils sont passés par le studio cent sept.

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Le saviez-vous? - Les chiffres et les nombres - Part 2

Difficulty: Newbie

France

In part two of her lesson on numbers, Patricia counts from 41 to 100 in French. Be prepared to do some arithmetic!

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Caption 74 [en]: Finally, one hundred.
Caption 74 [fr]: Enfin, cent.

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Mère & Fille - Tâches ménagères

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Barbara thinks she's tricked her mom, Isabelle, into doing all the household chores. But Isabelle uses Barbara's tactics against her to teach her a lesson.

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Caption 91 [en]: is two thousand four hundred fifty-three pairs of suspenders.
Caption 91 [fr]: c'est deux mille quatre cent cinquante-trois paires de bretelles.

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Nader Fakhry - L'école pour tous

Difficulty: Intermediate

Côte d'Ivoire, France

The Orange Foundation funded a new school near Abidjan in Ivory Coast. The children and their parents are very happy that the school was built right in their village and that education is now more accessible to them.

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Caption 59 [en]: We're always one hundred percent.
Caption 59 [fr]: Nous sommes toujours à cent pour cent.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mon patron m'oblige à mentir aux clients - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France None

Cynthia takes pity on a client who can't afford to pay the outrageous prices the company is charging and agonizes over his plight.

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Caption 30 [en]: The bill amounts to four thousand five hundred euros.
Caption 30 [fr]: La facture s'élève à quatre mille cinq cents euros.

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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 32 [en]: didn't exceed three hundred kilos in weight
Caption 32 [fr]: en poids ne dépassaient pas trois cents kilos

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QuestionEntretien - Pourquoi vous et pas un autre ? - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In the last part of this series on how to succeed in a job interview, you will hear more examples of answers for people with little experience or first-time job seekers.

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Caption 39 [en]: I live in a town of one thousand two hundred inhabitants,
Caption 39 [fr]: J'habite une commune de mille deux cents habitants

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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 11 [en]: with one thousand four hundred twenty-five horsepower turbocharged engines.
Caption 11 [fr]: avec des moteurs de mille quatre cent vingt-cinq chevaux turbo compressés.

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Nader Fakhry - À la recherche des derniers éléphants - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Côte d'Ivoire, France

Nader finally managed to find an elephant in Côte d'Ivoire, but not where he'd hoped. Along the way, he stopped at the "chimpanzee island," which sadly only has one inhabitant.

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Caption 47 [en]: with two hundred thousand francs
Caption 47 [fr]: de deux cent mille francs

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QuestionEntretien - Pourquoi vous et pas un autre ? - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In Part 3 of this video, you will be given examples on how best to answer the question "why me and not someone else" depending on whether you're an experienced applicant or are just starting out.

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Caption 46 [en]: Well, I ran a forum with three thousand five hundred subscribers
Caption 46 [fr]: Eh bien, j'ai animé un forum avec trois mille cinq cents inscrits

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À l'audience - Arnaque en couple ? - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Thanks to her astute defense lawyer, Nadège Berdil is finally cleared of any wrongdoing. Find out how her lawyer unraveled the elaborate scam of the two men.

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Caption 86 [en]: including three months with no remission, and four thousand five hundred euros in fines.
Caption 86 [fr]: dont trois mois ferme, et à quatre mille cinq cents euros d'amendes.

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