Un Point c'est tout

⟁ Very few topics manage to combine so many interesting areas. With the Louvre, more than eight centuries of history, arts, architecture, power and politics are contained in this unique place listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It started as a defense castle, became the royal residence, then a cultural center and finally the museum you (may/certainly) have heard of.

Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Mona Lisa (https://youtu.be/ACrmINfDquQ), Versailles (https://youtu.be/lMk8wOLSXwo), l'Académie française (https://youtu.be/1RU75-ufcsc), le Radeau de la Méduse (https://youtu.be/n6K2PGT0e4U) 🎬 (fr) C'est pas sorcier - Louvre 1 : du château fort au grand musée: https://youtu.be/617_B-rHzLc?si=GLweWw9OEXfH5GiN 🎬 (fr) C'est pas sorcier - Louvre 2 : les trésors du Grand Louvre: https://youtu.be/xGPIAaVe6UE?si=dgJ8y9cmROrRstN9 🔗 (fr) "Le Louvre, histoire d'un palais", p.60, Histoire & Civilisations n° 104, April 2024 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎨 1874 marks the birth of this essential artistic movement that is Impressionism. That year, several dissident artists decided to exhibit together their paintings, which were constantly refused at the official Salon of Academic Art. Among these artists, there are Monet, Renoir, Morisot, etc. Without knowing it, their artistic rebellion will be a major turning point in the history of art. Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Claude Monet (https://youtu.be/ukXG6eflUYw), Edgar Degas (https://youtu.be/wq6iZ4ObCeA), Vincent Van Gogh (https://youtu.be/dPveLR2lsSI), Paul Gauguin (https://youtu.be/6qNEDvAfdew) 🔗 (fr) 1874, le révolution impressionniste: https://www.beauxarts.com/1874-la-revolution-impressionniste/ 🎬 (fr) 1874, la naissance de l'impressionnisme: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113571-000-A/1874-la-naissance-de-l-impressionnisme/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

✍️ With masterpieces like “A Barrage Against the Pacific” and “The Lover,” Marguerite Duras made an essential name in 20th-century French literature. By recounting with great sensuality her personal and romantic experiences in French Indochina, she became one of the founders of the “Nouveau Roman” style which has indelibly influenced contemporary literature. Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Léopold Sédar Senghor (https://youtu.be/w-jrpidCVLQ), Agnès Varda (https://youtu.be/rU1sxx23W6I) 🔗 (fr) Quand Paris Match retrouvait l’amant de Marguerite Duras: https://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Livres/Marguerite-Duras-amant-photo-1646832 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

⚔️ Burgundy in the 15th century, duchy of all excess, luxury and ostentation. Main trading center of north-west Europe and home of the Flemish primitives. Today a fraction of the territory it once occupied, its history and its cultural, material and gastronomic riches have left an essential legacy in modern Europe.

Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Jeanne d'Arc (https://youtu.be/-tGpao-Azis), Clovis Ier (https://youtu.be/OMaNZKJvWIU), les Époux Arnolfini (https://youtu.be/k3NMl1RR6QI) 📕 Bart Van Loo's "Les Téméraires. Quand la Bourgogne défiait l'Europe" (French Edition): https://amzn.to/49QLSAl 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🧀 A white winter evening. Breathtaking views of hundreds of miles of moonlit Alpine mountains. Inside a chalet, a fireplace crackles while heating a wheel of cheese. The cheese, barely melted, flows delicately into a plate of potatoes and cold meats. This is what a normal raclette party looks like in the Alps. Sounds nice? Have you experienced it? Come talk with us about your ideal evening in the mountains, with or without raclette. (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar). Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: le Fromage (https://youtu.be/dpEcXcDDpas), la Dégustation de vin (https://youtu.be/e33KVPaNIh0) 🔗 (fr) Tout savoir sur la raclette: https://maisondufromage.fr/tout-savoir-sur-la-raclette/ 🔗 (fr) Raclette : pourquoi il n'est pas recommandé de boire de l'eau: https://www.leprogres.fr/magazine-cuisine-et-vins/2023/11/06/raclette-pourquoi-il-n-est-pas-recommande-de-boire-de-l-eau 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🇸🇳 To celebrate Black History Month by speaking French and watching good movies, let's take a moment to delve into the incredible work of Ousmane Sembène. Considered the father of African cinema, Sembène was a politically and socially engaged writer and filmmaker. He made powerful novels and films from the 1950s until his death in 2007. His legacy will live on for a long time. Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episode: Léopold Sédar Senghor (https://youtu.be/w-jrpidCVLQ) 🎬 Watch Sembène's "Black Girl" in the US: https://amzn.to/42shNVt (also available with a subscription on The Criterion Channel) 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎨 If you could look up the term "cursed artist" in the dictionary, you would certainly find the name of Vincent Van Gogh in the definition. This post-impressionist painter from the end of the 19th century left his mark on history not only through his exceptional work with colors and light, but also through his short and tortured life. Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Paul Gauguin (https://youtu.be/6qNEDvAfdew), Claude Monet (https://youtu.be/ukXG6eflUYw) 🔗 (fr) Van Gogh: Anatomie d'un mythe: https://www.beauxarts.com/vincentvangogh/ 🔗 (fr) Van Gogh, inépuisable star des écrans: https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/van-gogh-inepuisable-star-des-ecrans/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

❓In this episode, the Beginner will learn how to ask questions, and the Advanced will wonder why asking questions? From the simplest to the most complex, all questions are worth asking. In many cases, they can even be much more interesting than the answers. And after all, aren't they the catalyst of every good conversation? Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com 🔗 https://www.philomag.com/archives/hors-serie-ndeg59 (étape II) 📕 William James, Le Pragmatisme, 1907 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

👩🏻 Who is she? Why is she smiling? Or is it really a smile? Her eyes don't seem to convey the same emotion. So much history, mystery, fascination is contained in this Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece. But is it enough to justify the several tens of thousands of visitors coming to the Louvre every day only to catch a glimpse of the Mona Lisa? Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com to share your own opinion. Related episodes: Versailles (https://youtu.be/lMk8wOLSXwo), Napoléon (https://youtu.be/8YQ2XI8vBnA), Picasso (https://youtu.be/jjaD41zMt7w), le Radeau de la Méduse (https://youtu.be/n6K2PGT0e4U) 🔗 (fr) La Joconde, un chef-d’œuvre toujours énigmatique: https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-moderne/la-joconde-un-chef-doeuvre-toujours-enigmatique-2136.php 🔗 (fr) Le jour où la Joconde s'est fait la belle: https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/ep-1-le-jour-ou-la-joconde-sest-fait-la-belle/ 🔗 (fr) Pourquoi « La Joconde » est-elle aussi célèbre ?: https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/pourquoi-la-joconde-est-elle-aussi-celebre/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share

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🏰 In 2023, the Château de Versailles is celebrating its 400-year anniversary with a full year of shows and parties on the site. Quite an appropriate hommage to the palace that has seen some of the most (in)famous historical figures, and witnessed some of the key historical moments of modern European history. (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar). Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Erratum: Louis XIV decided to move from the Louvre to Versailles only in 1660, not in 1623 as stipulated in the episode. He was certainly omnipotent, but still wouldn't have been able to make such a decision fifteen years before his birth… Related episodes: Louis XV (https://youtu.be/30-zYnUAGcA), la Révolution française (https://youtu.be/Ctzqdmvt0Ls), la French Touch (https://youtu.be/d6HhXU188kQ) 🔗 Visit Versailles: https://www.chateauversailles.fr/

🎬 (fr) Arte's "Versailles - Le palais retrouvé du Roi-Soleil": https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/080101-000-A/versailles-le-palais-retrouve-du-roi-soleil/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🕶️ Alain Delon played the role of Caesar in one of the film adaptations of Astérix. For a reason. Alain Delon speaks of himself with the third-person pronoun, Alain Delon is the emperor of French cinema, Alain Delon is… Alain Delon. Raised for six decades as a cinema icon alongside Brigitte Bardot or other celebrities like Marlon Brando, James Dean, etc. Delon is still looking for the role that will end his career at the top.

Let's share our opinions on this controversial figure in this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Brigitte Bardot (https://youtu.be/HISlNTszfOM), Le Clan des Siciliens (https://youtu.be/snnN2LI38z8), la Nouvelle Vague (https://youtu.be/_wNBkj46Tg4) 🎬 Watch René Clément's "Plein Soleil": https://amzn.to/3ZIPJvO 🎬 Watch Jacques Deray's "La Piscine": https://amzn.to/3EZNGto 🎬 Watch Henri Verneuil's "Le Clan des Siciliens": https://amzn.to/3Nms0gb 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎭 Needless to introduce the widely famous Avignon bridge on which generations of people have danced in circular motion. But Avignon is much more than that. Taking advantage of its geographical position on the river Rhône, it was over the centuries a prosperous commercial city, and a papal center in France. And nowadays, located on the same train line between Paris, Lyon and Marseille, it also hosts the biggest theater festival in the world. Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Molière (https://youtu.be/d4XFMFivsyw), Bouchon lyonnais (https://youtu.be/ceCJ2518YpE), Jeanne d'Arc (https://youtu.be/-tGpao-Azis) 🔗 (fr) "Pourquoi les papes se sont-ils installés à Avignon ?" https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/France/Pourquoi-papes-sont-ils-installes-Avignon-2017-06-23-1200857550 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎼 About a century ago, composer Maurice Ravel wrote his "Boléro", the most performed piece of music to this day. Yet, despite that success, Ravel remains a mysterious artist. He was secretive and introvert, letting his music speak for himself. Fortunately, his music has a lot to say! Let's bring it into our conversations this week on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episode: Colette (https://youtu.be/9wtMhXpw04E) 🎬 "LEnfant et les sortilèges", Maurice Ravel & Colette, par l'Opéra de Lyon: https://youtu.be/JbqySviU4YQ?si=jXyL1M9O_wQztzJc 📕 (fr) Classica, n°247, novembre 2022 📕 (fr) “The Cambridge Companion to Ravel”, Deborah Mawer (2000) 📕 (fr) “La belle Époque de la musique française”, François Porcile (1999) 📕 (fr) “Maisons d’Artistes et d’écrivains, Paris et ses alentours”, Hélène Rochette (2019) 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🧀 What is there to say about cheese, other than the fact that it is delicious and that it makes you smile on pictures? Well, a lot obviously. Where does it come from? What is a good cheese? To that question, the medieval book "Le Ménagier de Paris" answers: "Neither Argos, nor Helena, nor Maria Magdalena, but Lazarus and Martin, with the heaviness of a pontiff". Let's figure out together what that means! Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: le vin (https://youtu.be/e33KVPaNIh0), la baguette (https://youtu.be/6_ats8NlXlc) 🔗 (fr) « Le fromage, pilier de la gastronomie française »: https://www.senat.fr/rap/r07-440/r07-44018.html 🔗 (fr) L’ascension du fromage au Moyen Âge: https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/gastronomie-lascension-du-fromage-au-moyen-age 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

👑 Cruel, legendary, violent, powerful, intelligent. So many adjectives that could be attributed to this mythical figure. Clovis was real for sure, but we actually don't know much about him due to a great lack of written sources from the late 5th century AD. Anything can be said about him, especially if it helps to found the history of the French monarchy on heroic foundations. One thing is certain, though, he is the pivotal figure between Roman Gaul and medieval France.

Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Les Origines de la France (https://youtu.be/Rlba7ZBoNNc), Louis XV (https://youtu.be/30-zYnUAGcA) 🔗 (fr) "Le Vase de Soisson existe-t-il?": https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/114072-002-A/le-vase-de-soissons-existe-t-il/ 📕 (fr) Histoire & Découvertes: “Somptueux Moyen-Âge”, p.12 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🚀 Fifty years of working, growing and improving. Europe's Ariane space launch program is about to send its all-new Ariane 6 vehicles, the next evolution of its flagship starship, into space. In constant evolution, this new rocket is destined to open the doors to a new technological future, or simply stay up to date with the multiple ever-growing space programs around the world.

Let's talk this week about why and what it means to compete for some space in space, on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Mars 2020 (https://youtu.be/K7QZmpeT8dk), le Concorde (https://youtu.be/Gf1NsGvJ7_o), le TGV (https://youtu.be/4wmXERGMURE), le Minitel (https://youtu.be/BHomzyq3gh8) 🎙️ (fr) France Culture's "Ariane 5, les adieux à la reine": https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-science-cqfd/ariane-5-9186361 🎬 (fr) Arte's "L'Europe dans l'espace": https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-021774/l-europe-dans-l-espace/ 🎬 (fr) C'est pas sorcier's "Qu'est-ce qu'un lanceur?": https://youtu.be/A4dYJgxro6k 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

👨‍🎨 High among the great masters of French painting, there is Eugène Delacroix. Born in Paris in 1798, he is one of the leaders of Romanticism. But that's not all, following a life-changing trip to Morocco at the age of 34, Delacroix also became one of the important figures of Orientalism, that 19th-century artistic movement fascinated by (what Europeans saw as) Eastern cultures. Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Théodore Géricault's "Radeau de la Méduse" (https://youtu.be/n6K2PGT0e4U) 🎬 (fr) Arte's "Eugène Delacroix, d'Orient et d'Occident": https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/073092-000-F/eugene-delacroix-d-orient-et-d-occident/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🧐 France is probably the country in the world that hosts the most philosophers per square meter. And for the best. There are so many questions with no right or wrong answer that need to be asked. One of them is whether advice should be given to people or whether they should be free to make their own mistakes. With the help of Aristotle, Akhlaghi and Athos from The Three Musketeers, we're going to try and give it a shot for ourselves this week.

Join the conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: L'Art de Râler (https://youtu.be/eIZl1mJahFU), Les Trois Mousquetaires (https://youtu.be/CN8_dgk6Mpk), Le pronom iel (https://youtu.be/msa8KUwXbz0) 🔗 (fr) Faut-il donner des conseils à ses amis ?: https://www.philomag.com/articles/faut-il-donner-des-conseils-ses-amis 🔗 (en) Farbod Akhlaghi's "Transformative experience and the right to revelatory autonomy": https://academic.oup.com/analysis/advance-article/doi/10.1093/analys/anac084/6966040 🔗 (en) Ever tried to stop a friend marrying someone, or moving far away? You could have made an ethical faux pas: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/13/friend-marry-moral-advice-ethical-right 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🏰 Every year on July 14, France celebrates its national day, known in English as "Bastille Day". But what exactly is the so-called "Bastille"? Or should we say "was" because it no longer exists. It was a prison and a fortress in the heart of Paris, which the revolutionaries besieged, seized and destroyed from July 14, 1789, marking the beginning of the French Revolution.

Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: la Révolution française (https://youtu.be/Ctzqdmvt0Ls), De 1776 à 1789 (https://youtu.be/Bays2-Q-Ugw) 🎙 (fr) "La Vérité sur la Bastille" on Europe 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIK1iGJlwJQ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎥 Alongside the Lumière brothers and other big names in early French cinema such as Léon Gaumont, there is Alice Guy. With more than 700 short films, she was a major figure in the early ages of the seventh art. With films like "La Fée aux choux", she defined an era, both in France and in the United States. Yet, she (and her work) mysteriously disappeared from the records about a century ago, only to reappear in the 21st century.

Let's understand why in this week's conversations. Join us on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Colette (https://youtu.be/9wtMhXpw04E), Coco Chanel (https://youtu.be/cOYhfAmqAu4) 🔗 "La Fée aux choux": https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fée_aux_choux 🎬 (fr) ARTE's "Alice Guy: l'inconnue du 7è art": https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/095829-000-A/alice-guy-l-inconnue-du-7e-art/ 🎬 "Les Résultats du féminisme": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAc5gJCDEJ4 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

⚔️ Following the release of the new film "The Three Musketeers: d'Artagnan", and the anniversary of the death of the real d'Artagnan on June 25, 1673, here is an episode on the world-famous novel by Alexandre Dumas. But before we start, why did Dumas call it "Les trois Mousquetaires"? Aren't they four? Well, it seems that Dumas thought this confusion would benefit the sales of his book. I guess we can't deny that it worked out pretty well. (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar). Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episode: le cardinal de Richelieu (https://youtu.be/bPcnCIQnB4Y) 📕 (fr) Alexandre Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires, in the US: https://amzn.to/45XD3E3 in the UK: https://amzn.to/3MMv0RG 🔗 (fr) L'affaire des ferrets de la reine: https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-moderne/anne-dautriche-laffaire-des-ferrets-de-la-reine-69512.php 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

⛪️ The Cardinal Duke of Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIII, aka the Red Eminence, was made infamous by Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel "The Three Musketeers". Plotting against the Queen of France, he is portrayed as a Machiavellian character, ready to go to any length to achieve his personal goals. Even though his toughness seems to be historically accurate, the Cardinal wasn't really driven by evil. Instead, his rigorous approach to politics and diplomacy, which inspired Dumas so well, was seemingly only motivated by national interest… What is your opinion? Related episodes: Académie française (https://youtu.be/1RU75-ufcsc), lingua franca (https://youtu.be/cT3DLqjG9GA) 🔗 (fr) Le cardinal de Richelieu, loin de la légende: https://www.generations-plus.ch/?q=magazine/loisirsmaison/litt%C3%A9raturebd/le-cardinal-de-richelieu-loin-de-la-l%C3%A9gende 📕 (fr) Alexandre Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires, in the US: https://amzn.to/45XD3E3 in the UK: https://amzn.to/3MMv0RG 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🌏 Imagine being an Englishman during the Industrial Revolution, and wealthy enough to decide on a sudden impulse to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, just to make a point to your friends at the gentleman club. As obnoxious as the initial plot may seem, it gave Jules Verne a formidable pretext to make our imagination travel to France, Italy, Egypt, India, China, Japan and the United States, all in one tiny book (still about 250 pages, though). Highly recommended book! in French obviously. Meanwhile, there are numerous film adaptations such as the classic 1956 version with David Niven (in US: https://amzn.to/3BHE6d4 - in UK: https://amzn.to/42QgNd8) or the 2004 version with Jackie Chan (in US: https://amzn.to/43eWZjz - in UK: https://amzn.to/437PHOn). (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar). Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Voyage (https://youtu.be/WXBrNfaQUT4), Bougainville (https://youtu.be/qPKkvuu8NRk), le TGV (https://youtu.be/4wmXERGMURE), le Concorde (https://youtu.be/Gf1NsGvJ7_o) 🔗 (fr) Jules Verne et la science: https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-contemporaine/jules-verne-fait-tout-un-roman-de-la-science-2742.php 📕 (fr) Lire le livre, US: https://amzn.to/3BE5s3J ou UK: https://amzn.to/459aHGp 📕 (en) Get the book in the US: https://amzn.to/41PWY4m or in the UK: https://amzn.to/3MjRF7F 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🗑 Among the many celebrations of the month of May, there is one particularly joyful: the celebration of trash. "La poubelle" in French. Before being the name of a notorious restaurant in Los Angeles, the word "poubelle" was a simple feminine noun, itself derived from the name of Eugène Poubelle. And this ping-pong between name and noun is in fact a figure of speech: an antonomasia. So much to say about trash! Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: L'accord de Paris (https://youtu.be/_OUUSz3sPf0), Spa (https://youtu.be/QV_Ljb1ohKk) 🔗 (fr) Journée nationale de la poubelle et des ordures: https://lesjourneesmondiales.fr/Agenda/journee-nationale-de-la-poubelle-et-des-ordures/ 🔗 (fr) Gestion et tri des déchets - Paris: https://www.paris.fr/gestion-et-tri-des-dechets 🎙 (fr) Peut-on vivre sans poubelle ?: https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/la-vie-en-bleu-le-dossier-en-poitou/poitou/peut-vivre-sans-poubelle 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎨 Recognized as one of the most influential French artists, Marc Chagall wasn’t actually French at first. Born and raised in a Jewish family of Belarus, his heritage, in the first half of the 20th century, had a massive impact on his life, his personality, and most importantly, on his body of art. As the question of maintaining or replacing his giant painting on the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris arises again, let's do a little retrospective on his almost century-old life and career. Join this week's conversations on Marc Chagall, and our Thursday focus group "Faut-il remplacer le plafond de l'opéra Garnier ?" on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Pablo Picasso (https://youtu.be/jjaD41zMt7w), Henri Matisse (https://youtu.be/bKKFGM-7h1k), La Côte d'Azur (https://youtu.be/_mVjSvlGfRE), le régime méditerranéen (https://youtu.be/Sgo6Fsva4ik) 🔗 (fr) "Ce que vous ne saviez (peut-être) pas sur Marc Chagall": https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/ce-que-vous-ne-saviez-peut-etre-pas-sur-marc-chagall/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🎺 May 5, 1862, the French troops arrive in Puebla, Mexico, determined to defeat the Mexican army. Better trained and more numerous, they should soon control the region, and then the rest of the country. But, there is a but. The Mexican soldiers know the terrain well, and for nothing in the world would they abandon their land. In about three hours, heroically, they push back the enemies. An affront that the French will find difficult to swallow... Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com 🔗 (en) Cinco de Mayo: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/cinco-de-mayo 🔗 (fr) La Bataille de Camerone: https://www.histoire-pour-tous.fr/batailles/4531-la-bataille-de-camerone-30-avril-1863.html 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

👑 If this Bourbon king hadn't received the number 15, he may have been forgotten in the meanders of time. Luckily for him, he reigned just between the Sun King (14) and the beheaded one (16). Nevertheless, Louis the 15th wasn't as uninteresting as it seems. He was no public relations master, sure, but quite an effective king who deserves more credit for his promotion of the arts and sciences in the Age of Enlightenment. Director Maïwenn depicts him (played by Johnny Depp) in her latest feature film JEANNE DU BARRY which will be premiering at Cannes this year. Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Bougainville (https://youtu.be/qPKkvuu8NRk), De 1776 à 1789 (https://youtu.be/Bays2-Q-Ugw), la Révolution française (https://youtu.be/Ctzqdmvt0Ls) 🔗 (fr) "Louis XV, le roi méconnu": https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-moderne/louis-xv-le-roi-meconnu-69204.php 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🥄 If you haven’t seen this feel-good movie*, you must. Amelie will cheer you up, the same way she cheers up everyone around her. And if you've already watched it, it's a great opportunity to re-watch it before moving on to the newly released 6-minute video, a self re-appropriation the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet just released on his YouTube channel**. Listen to this week's episode, join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episode: Emily In Paris (https://youtu.be/EJFjMbdNvx0) 🎬 * Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMÉLIE POULAIN" – in the US: https://amzn.to/3MMPifg — in the UK: free on Disney+ and Prime Video, or not free on https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/amelie/umc.cmc.3bum7tsq7nui4tlour7vsn19i 🎬 ** Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "LA VÉRITABLE HISTOIRE D'AMÉLIE POULAIN": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB_lTTxYSsg 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

👣 If you're traveling in the French countryside, chances are you'll come across one of the many prehistoric caves. There are so many, especially in the Dordogne and in the south-east of the country. As beautiful as their millennial paintings are, there is very little we can know about the inhabitants of these caves. Prehistory = no written records. Yet archaeo- and anthropologists have managed to gather an impressive amount of knowledge. It's even nicer to enjoy the paintings when you know a little more about the cavemen who made them! Join this week's conversation on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: Les origines de la France (https://youtu.be/Rlba7ZBoNNc), La Côte d'Azur (https://youtu.be/_mVjSvlGfRE) 📕 (fr) "L"Homme nomade", Jacques Attali, Livre de Poche, 2003, in the US: https://amzn.to/3MuKPOf , in the UK: https://amzn.to/3zGoMN0 🎬 (fr) "Sapiens, et la musique fut", ARTE.tv: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/070787-000-A/sapiens-et-la-musique-fut/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🖋 The Musée du Quai Branly in Paris has just unveiled its new exhibition: "Léopold Sédar Senghor and the arts" (until Nov 19, 2023). This major figure in literature and politics lived both in Senegal and in France throughout the entire 20th century. He spent time with other giants such as Aimé Césaire, Georges Pompidou, Pablo Picasso and many others, constantly advocating for the coming together of all cultures. Let's explore his work and legacy in this week's conversations: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episode: Les Jeux de la Francophonie (https://youtu.be/oA_d0CXkl3Y) 🔗 Expo au Quai Branly - Paris: https://quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/details-de-levenement/e/senghor-et-les-arts 🎬 INA.fr "Poète et président : Léopold Sédar Senghor": https://youtu.be/V7NVTIVOERA 🎙 "Léopold Sédar Senghor, humaniste et universel" sur France Culture: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-cours-de-l-histoire/leopold-sedar-senghor-humaniste-et-universel-2322072 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

🤡 The art of mime is as old and international as the theater itself. But one artist has created a specific character now inseparable from the city of Paris: the one with white makeup, lipstick and beret that you may (probably not) see performing in front of the Eiffel Tower. This visionary mime, Marcel Marceau was born exactly a century ago, on March 22, 1923, and died in 2007. Let's have a minute of silence in his honor. Join the conversation about "L'art du mime" this week: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related video: le béret basque (https://youtu.be/yAV8_Nlj5nI) 🎥 Watch Jonathan Jakubowicz's RESISTANCE (2020) in the US: https://amzn.to/3FEj0Pd or in the UK: https://amzn.to/3Tzy32A 🎙 "Toute une Vie: Marcel Marceau" sur France Culture: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/une-vie-une-oeuvre/marcel-marceau-1923-2007-parler-apres-bip-6574121 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com

💥 50 B.C., a small village in Brittany is the last to resist the Roman invasion. Astérix and Obélix, with the help of the villagers (and a little magic potion) continue to prevent the great Julius Caesar from finally declaring all of Gaul conquered. It is with this loosely historical and very comical premise that René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo managed, them, to conquer the hearts of generations of readers.

Related episodes: Le Petit Nicolas (https://youtu.be/LTeAmE0lYd4), L'Histoire de France (https://youtu.be/Rlba7ZBoNNc)

📕 Read Astérix in the US: https://amzn.to/3SrtF5d , in the UK: https://amzn.to/3SrtF5d
🔗 El Pais: https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-10-17/asterix-se-cae-en-la-marmita-de-la-bronca-politica.html
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😴 There couldn't be a better moment in time to talk about Paul Lafargue's manifesto "The Right to Be Lazy" (1880). With the protests taking place in France against the pension reform, as well as the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence replacing more and more jobs, should the debate be about the right to work or the right to to be lazy?

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🎥 Characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol was certainly one of the most prolific of his time. He was fascinated by Alfred Hitchcock, and through a career of over 50 years, became the master of soft psychological thrillers, with mystery, crime and and good pinch of gastronomical feasts.

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🥖 Why is the French baguette so good? Excellent question. The secret lies in the simplicity of the recipe and the intricacy of a craft that has taken forever to perfect. The artisanal know-how and culture of baguette bread was recently listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Put on your beret, get some camembert and let's talk about this unbeatable addition to the perfect breakfast, lunch and dinner.

🙉 Everything you need to know (and a game) about the baguette, with Google Arts & Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/baguette
🔗 La baguette de pain française inscrite au patrimoine immatériel de l’humanité par l’Unesco: https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/11/30/la-baguette-de-pain-francaise-inscrite-au-patrimoine-immateriel-de-l-humanite-par-l-unesco_6152331_3246.html
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✒️ Born 150 years ago, on January 28, 1873, the French novelist Colette is very celebrated this week in France. And rightly so. This very original writer had a tumultuous personal and creative life at the turn of the 20th century. And while she didn’t consider herself a feminist, she has certainly been seen as a feminist icon as well as a groundbreaking author for decades to come.

🎬 Watch "Colette" with Keira Knightley on Netflix US: https://www.netflix.com/title/80240244
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🧳 Did you know why the word "voyage" in French can be translated into English with journey, travel or trip… but not voyage? Well, I did wonder. And as a pretext to talk with you about the beaches of Côte d'Azur, the Vallée de la Loire, and other awesome places to travel to, I present to you this linguistic exploration at the heart of the word itself.

📕 Daniel Mendelsohn, "An Odyssey, A Father, A Son, And An Epic" (2017)
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🗽 Since 1886, this majestic allegorical sculpture has taken center stage in New York Harbor. The statue of Liberty's rich history is tied to American immigration and the concept of freedom. But if her main role is to welcome immigrants, she is herself one. Lady Liberty hails from France, from the mind of a group of ambitious idealists.

🔗 Read about the Statue of Liberty in Histoire & Civilisations n°87 10/2022, p.70
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🔬 Can the little beast eat the big one? This is the main focus of Louis Pasteur's research in the 19th century. All these years of research that have advanced not only science by leaps and bounds, but also the daily habits of our modern society. Washing hands, sterilizing objects, getting vaccinated, so many things that seem normal to us now when they weren't always.

🔗 "Louis Pasteur : une vie de découvertes au service de la science" : https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-contemporaine/louis-pasteur-une-vie-de-decouvertes-au-service-de-la-science-84717.php
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🎭 Four hundred years ago, in 1622 (((not 1662 as misspoke in the audio…))), the most classic of French classic writers was born. So classic that even his stage name, Molière, has been universally associated with the name of the language itself. French is "the language of Molière". Let's get on the boards and learn a bit about 17th century theater literature. 

🔗 "La Langue de Molière": https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/pourquoi-parle-t-on-de-la-langue-de-moliere-20220105
🎬 "Le Malade imaginaire" with Christian Clavier: https://youtu.be/gI69a2xGrH0
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🪁 When René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé (https://youtu.be/C9mSQi2DGuU) met in the late 1950s, they gave birth to the Petit Nicolas, one of the most adored figures of French kids’ literature. Nicolas is an ordinary schoolboy in an ordinary school, whose adventures are … quite ordinary too. Yet, that excess of ordinary becomes extraordinary when told with so much humor and tenderness.

📕 Read "Le Petit Nicolas": https://www.amazon.com/Petit-Nicolas-French-Sempe/dp/0828822875/
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🍷 J-3 before the Beaujolais Nouveau 2022 is released in stores worldwide. This will be the first wine of this year's harvest. Since we have 3 days to wait, why not spend 3 minutes of those listening to this episode.

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🎭 His life is as hectic as his films are eclectic, his persona as colorful as some of his characters, we’re talking about Gérard Depardieu. The French actor is adored by the public, attracting the most audience of any living French actor. But the man behind the mask seems to have quite a few demons he’s struggling with. Should that make him less likable?

🔗 Gérard Depardieu's filmography: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmographie_de_G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu
🔗 Douze frasques de Gérard Depardieu depuis 20 ans: https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/02/23/douze-frasques-de-gerard-depardieu-depuis-20-ans
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👻 Happy Halloween, everyone. Maybe some of you are celebrating it around a table invoking spirits of deceased people? But is this practice actually called spiritualism or spiritism? While the word spiritualism can mean several things, the word spiritism is specifically limited to the occult science. And, it has been introduced by a Frenchman who believed he was the reincarnation of a Celtic druid…

📕 Read Allan Kardec's "Le Livre des esprits" (Fr): https://www.cslak.fr/bibliotheque-edition/78-livres/1160-allan-kardec-le-livre-des-esprits
🔗 About the history of spiritism: https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-contemporaine/paranormal-quand-le-spiritisme-envoute-loccident-84712.php
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🤾‍♀️ As the upcoming release of Niki de Saint Phalle’s biopic with Charlotte Le Bon is approaching, let’s get ready with a little introduction of this artist of the 20th century. Not only has she made iconic art with her huge “nanas” in bright colors, but she was also a political activist on several fronts. Little bonus: yes, she is the artist of the Stravinsky fountain in Paris, next to the Centre Pompidou :)

🎬 Watch Niki de Saint Phalle talking about her art in this archive from the RTS television (Fr): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfkYhHntcnk
🏛 Virtual tour of the MOCA San Diego, Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=CY5E7BE8KYs
🔗 Qui est Niki de Saint Phalle in 3 minutes (Fr): https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/niki-de-saint-phalle-en-3-minutes/
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🕌 If you can't buy your dream house, just build it. That's what Ferdinand Cheval, a postman in the south of France, decided almost 150 years ago. And he built it until the last stone. He created a massive palace including each and every one of his fantasies and dreams. He made what he thought was the "ideal palace". To this day, you can still visit the eccentric building in Drôme, it is open to the public. What would be your ideal palace?

🔗 "Le Palais idéal" sur BeauxArts: https://www.beauxarts.com/vu/le-palais-ideal-du-facteur-cheval-un-reve-de-pierre-dans-la-drome/
🎬 L'incroyable Histoire du facteur Cheval (2019)
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🧑‍🎨 Today marks the first day of the Paris Women’s Fashion Week. A great opportunity to talk a bit about the famous Basque beret, that hat worn by every stereotyped French person. How did a woolen hat made by and for Béarn shepherds in the Pyrenees became Basque? Then a French symbol? And how did it eventually evolve as far as Argentina and the Far East? The answer is simple: amazing versatility.

🔗 ManuFrance: https://www.manufrance.fr/actualite/lhistoire-du-beret-entre-tradition-et-symbole-francais
📕 Courrier international n° 1497 (11-17 juillet 2019): La fantastique histoire du béret basque
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