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TV8 Mont Blanc - Découverte d'une piscine écologique aux Echelles

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In an effort to promote ecotourism, the town of Echelles has constructed one of the largest natural bathing areas in France. Its filtration system is 100% natural, powered by thousands of plant seedlings.

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Caption 32 [en]: And there is a limiting threshold of four hundred twenty bathers a day,
Caption 32 [fr]: Et on a un seuil de quatre cent vingt baigneurs-jour limitatif

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Voyage en France - Le château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this tour of the town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, you will discover a very old castle built by King Francis the First as well as a quintessentially French marketplace, whose numerous fountains make it the perfect place to cool off in the summer.

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Caption 10 [en]: As for the existing castle, it dates from fifteen hundred thirty-nine,
Caption 10 [fr]: Le château actuel date quant à lui de quinze cent trente-neuf,

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Télé Lyon Métropole - Chaillé-les-Marais : Une biscuiterie 100 % familiale

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Take a tour of this family-run cookie factory in Chaillé-les-Marais, where each family member is responsible for a different stage of production, from harvesting the wheat to packaging the final product. They take the idea of "homemade" to a whole new level!

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Caption 8 [en]: because this cookie factory is one hundred percent family-run.
Caption 8 [fr]: car cette biscuiterie est cent pour cent familiale.

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Lionel - à Metz - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel takes us to the historic part of the city of Metz and to the Galerie Saint-Jacques, where you can browse the shops and go to restaurants. The shopping mall is located on one of the largest squares of the city, the Place Saint-Jacques.

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Caption 27 [en]: , was called before sev'... seventeen hundred seven , Place au Change [Exchange Square],
Caption 27 [fr]: se nommait avant mille... mille sept cent sept, la Place au Change

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Voyage en France - Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol is in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where France's King Louis XIV was born. The Parisian suburb is also the site of the summer art exhibition Nouvelles folies à la française (New French Follies). This year's exhibition includes, among other things, a giant four-poster bed floating in the middle of a fountain!

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Caption 30 [en]: It's here in Saint-Germain-en-Laye that, on the twenty-fourth of August eighteen hundred thirty-seven,
Caption 30 [fr]: C'est ici à Saint-Germain-en-Laye que le vingt-quatre août mille huit cent trente-sept

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Lionel - à Metz - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel takes us to Metz, a city that was once part of Germany, being only some sixty kilometers from the German border. In this video you will learn a few facts about this Germanic city, and you will add a lot of useful terms to your going-about-town vocabulary.

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Caption 20 [en]: that existed for two hundred fifty years after Clovis's death.
Caption 20 [fr]: qui a existé durant deux cent cinquante ans après la mort de Clovis.

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Télé Lyon Métropole - L'opéra Carmen dans un... boulodrome!

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Why not bring the orchestra to the people instead of the people going to the orchestra? That's exactly what the Lyon Villeurbanne Symphony Orchestra did. They brought the opera Carmen to the bowling alley in the town of Mornant so that people would not have to travel hundreds of miles to enjoy the show.

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Caption 2 [en]: We have this venue today that makes it possible to accommodate a little over... six hundred people
Caption 2 [fr]: On a aujourd'hui ce lieu qui permet d'accueillir un peu plus de... de six cents personnes

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Pierre Esparre - Une interview avec l'artiste

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this episode, Pierre Esparre, a fine mosaic artist, explains how he discovered his talent and how he gets his inspiration from everyday life, whether it's a street scene, a YouTube video, or an Internet page. Watch this video to see how Pierre translates his ideas into quirky, humorous, and eye-catching creations.

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Caption 27 [en]: I did, uh... uh... no, I did a lot of them, uh... over a... hundred or so,
Caption 27 [fr]: J'ai fait, euh... euh... non, j'en ai fait beaucoup, euh... au-delà d'une... centaine,

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Voyage en France - Carrières-sur-Seine

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us to the quiet village of Carrières-sur-Seine, a mere twenty kilometers from Paris. He points out a fun bench called Le banc des menteurs (The Liars' Bench), where one can sit and presumably tell lies until closing time at 7 p.m. Then the liars can take cover in one of the nearby cave dwellings carved straight out of the cliffs.

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Caption 31 [en]: that is quite simply called "The Village." Date: nineteen hundred five.
Caption 31 [fr]: qui s'appelle tout simplement "Le village". Date: mille neuf cent cinq.

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Voyage en France - La ville de Provins - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this third episode on the medieval town of Provins, Daniel Benchimol shows us a monument coming from Brazil, an old synagogue, and a beautiful church where Joan of Arc attended mass with King Charles the Seventh. He also gives us a glimpse into Provins real estate, with a beautiful house that has been estimated at a modest price of six million dollars!

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Caption 24 [en]: And it's here, in fourteen hundred twenty-nine, that Joan of Arc, back from Reims,
Caption 24 [fr]: Et c'est ici, en quatorze cent vingt-neuf que Jeanne d'Arc, de retour de Reims,

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Oldelaf - interprète "Vendredi"

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Enjoy Oldelaf's quirky humor, as displayed in his introduction to his two backup musicians who come from wildly different backgrounds, to say the least. Then listen to his satirical song "Vendredi" (Friday), where he describes a typical weekend for the average bored (and boring?) French guy.

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Caption 49 [en]: But I scored one hundred and eight at bowling
Caption 49 [fr]: Mais j'ai fait cent huit au bowling

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Voyage dans Paris - Le Bois de Boulogne

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us to the Bois de Boulogne, a very popular forest park over twice the size of New York's Central Park. There, you will be able to eat at the Grande Cascade [Grand Waterfall] restaurant, named after a nearby waterfall, that is only accessible by boat, or you could go for a stroll and gaze up at a 150-year-old cedar tree.

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Caption 4 [en]: It's a park that stretches over eight hundred forty-six hectares,
Caption 4 [fr]: C'est un parc qui s'étend sur huit cent quarante-six hectares,

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TV Tours - Défendre les fromages au lait cru

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The French love their cheese, and as this video demonstrates, their appreciation begins at a young age. In the Touraine region, a group of students taste an incredible variety of raw milk cheeses from the area and learn about the ways in which they differ from their "industrial" imitations. Who says that kids can't have refined palates?

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Caption 10 [en]: Here we brought back a hundred or so raw milk cheeses on the tray to show them
Caption 10 [fr]: Là on a ramené une centaine de fromages au lait cru sur le plateau pour leur montrer

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De nouvelles découvertes avec Marion - La place des Vosges

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the Marais district, Marion takes us to the Place des Vosges, the oldest square in Paris. Its center was sometimes used for tournaments and duels, until Richelieu put a stop to that in 1626. The distinctive red brick buildings surrounding the square were once home to such renowned historic and literary figures as Richelieu and Victor Hugo.

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Caption 4 [en]: The former Place Royale [Royal Square], rechristened Place des Vosges in eighteen hundred,
Caption 4 [fr]: L'ancienne place Royale, rebaptisée place des Vosges en mille huit cent,

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 11

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

Oliver concludes this eleven-part series with a visit to Fort Chambry, where French and British armies fought over new Canadian territories. How did this affect the present? Olivier leaves us to draw our own conclusions and assures us that he is fond of the Québécois as much as they are fond of him. He shares his final impressions of Quebec in a lovely song at the end.

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Caption 7 [en]: There could have been three, four hundred soldiers around here with tents.
Caption 7 [fr]: Ils pouvaient être trois, quatre cents soldats autour ici avec des tentes.

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