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Voyage en France - Fontainebleau

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol visits Fontainebleau, a town south of Paris that many French kings visited. Its magnificent Renaissance style castle was Napoleon's favorite residence.

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Caption 3 [en]: The castle was designed for King Francis the First in fifteen hundred twenty-eight.
Caption 3 [fr]: Le château a été conçu pour le roi François Premier en quinze cent vingt-huit.

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Alsace 20 - Grain de Sel: le Lycée hôtelier Alexandre Dumas

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Nicolas introduces some specialties of the Alsace region at the Alexandre Dumas Catering, Hospitality, and Tourism College. In this episode, pastry chefs bake some delicious cookies called "mannele" and "bredele." It's never too early to start planning your next New Year's fête!

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Caption 26 [en]: one hundred twenty grams of sugar, twenty grams of salt, sixty grams of yeast.
Caption 26 [fr]: cent vingt grammes de sucre, vingt grammes de sel, soixante grammes de levure.

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 7

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Vespuccia or America? In the last episode of this fun cartoon, we find out how the name of the new continent now known as "America" came about.

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Caption 18 [en]: In fifteen hundred and one, Vespucci, all alone this time, without Alonso Ojeda,
Caption 18 [fr]: En mille cinq cent un, Vespucci, tout seul cette fois, sans Alonso Ojeda,

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JT - Le noël du Secours populaire

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This video describes a Christmas celebration at the Secours Populaire, an organization in France that helps underprivileged children and families, without passing judgment on their plight. Here they are celebrating Christmas with a big snack, gifts, chocolates, and a magic show.

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Caption 9 [en]: In all, close to eight hundred children were gathered around a magic show, lots of snacks,
Caption 9 [fr]: En tout, près de huit cents enfants étaient réunis autour d'un spectacle de magie, d'un goûter géant

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TV Tours - Une seconde vie pour vos sapins de Noël?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This nurseryman from Cinq-Mars-la-Pile urges Christmas tree buyers to do the right thing: buy a root balled tree so that it can be replanted the following year!

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Caption 1 [en]: At this nurseryman's place in Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, they sell one thousand five hundred fir trees a year,
Caption 1 [fr]: Chez ce pépiniériste de Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, on vend à l'année mille cinq cents sapins,

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: Trouville

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us on a stroll through Trouville, a town in Normandy that's famous for its boardwalk. A favorite of novelist Gustave Flaubert, this charming town also boasts some beautiful villas, a fishing port, and delicious restaurants.

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Caption 8 [en]: One of the special features is this boardwalk that unwinds over several hundred meters,
Caption 8 [fr]: Une des particularités, ce sont ces planches qui se déroulent sur plusieurs centaines de mètres,

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amerigo Vespucci sets foot for the first time on the American continent. He collects all manner of plants and animals, only to drop them into the Amazon River.

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Caption 18 [en]: We are a few hundred leagues from the equator.
Caption 18 [fr]: Nous sommes à quelques centaines de lieues de l'équateur.

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TV Sud - Fête de la Tortue 2012

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

If you're a turtle lover, you may be interested in the Fête de la tortue (Turtle Festival), which takes place in a different French town every year. This year's festival was in July, so you and your turtles will have to wait for next year's!

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Caption 3 [en]: What's the name of your little tortoise of... -So this is… -of three hundred grams?
Caption 3 [fr]: Comment elle s'appelle votre petite tortue de... -Alors ça, c'est... -de trois cents grammes?

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

He may not know it yet, but Amerigo Vespucci's life is about to change. Though he works as a successful banker, Amerigo feels restless and aspires to greater things. Luckily, Lorenzo de' Medici has offered him the opportunity of a lifetime: a trip to Spain to help Christopher Columbus prepare for an expedition to the Indies.

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Caption 31 [en]: And on August third, fourteen hundred ninety-two,
Caption 31 [fr]: Et le trois août quatorze cent quatre-vingt-douze,

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: Honfleur

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Honfleur is a Norman town whose beauty was immortalized by the Impressionists. Come take a trip with Daniel Benchimol through this historic town that inspired an entire art movement.

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Caption 15 [en]: it's from this place that Samuel Champlain departed in sixteen hundred and three
Caption 15 [fr]: c'est depuis cet endroit que Samuel Champlain partit en mille six cent trois,

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TV Sud - Alzheimer: L'efficacité des Jardins de Sophia

Difficulty: Beginner

France

At Les Jardins de Sophia (Sophia's Gardens), a new, non-medicinal approach to treating Alzheimer's patients is giving hope to their families and being noticed by medical authorities.

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Caption 20 [en]: In France, eight hundred fifty thousand people are affected by Alzheimer's disease.
Caption 20 [fr]: En France, huit cent cinquante mille personnes sont atteintes de la maladie d'Alzheimer.

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JT - Douane: vigilance sur terre, en mer et dans les airs

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

French customs coast guards don't miss much, whether it's a freighter carrying drug traffickers or just a casual sailboat. But their main goal is to keep their country's waters pollution-free.

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Caption 30 [en]: A freighter of around a hundred meters that just left the Saint-Nazaire port.
Caption 30 [fr]: Un cargo d'une centaine de mètres qui vient de quitter le port nazairien.

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Il était une fois: L’Espace - 6. La révolte des robots - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

It's not looking too great for the humans in their battle against the robot rebels. With only a handful of troops on their side and the robots bent on taking over the planet, how will they ever succeed?

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Caption 20 [en]: From two to three hundred men able to fight... And that's all...
Caption 20 [fr]: De deux à trois cents hommes en état de combattre... Et c'est tout...

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Le Journal - La Coupe du Monde - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This news report follows up on the squatters in Cachan, who receive good news from the mayor: after six weeks spent in a gymnasium, they're being relocated to a hostel with real accommodations.

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Caption 12 [en]: Three hundred and seventy persons must be rehoused,
Caption 12 [fr]: Trois cent soixante-dix personnes doivent être relogées,

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: Cabourg

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol shows us around Cabourg in Normandy. There, you'll find a casino and the famous Grand Hôtel, where Marcel Proust stayed and found inspiration for his book In Search of Lost Time.

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Caption 33 [en]: There is a distance of two hundred kilometers.
Caption 33 [fr]: Il y a une distance de deux cents kilomètres.

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