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One topic a week about French culture, art, food, fashion, history… This podcast is ideal for people who want to improve their French listening skills. For conversational skills, join us weekly on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com/ or on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/FrenchConversationGroup...
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Travel: The Villages At The Top
🏔️ Perched on the hills like eagles' nests, hilltop villages are the stuff of dreams! With their stone streets, castles, and breathtaking views, they...
Cinema: Anna Karina, the Discreet Rebel
🎬 Actress, model, and singer, she captivated the screen with her elegant yet relaxed style. Anna Karina, an icon of 1960s French cinema, was Jean-Luc...
Music: Carmen, Love Is A Rebellious Bird
💃 Who hasn't heard the song "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" ("Love is a Rebel Bird") and found themselves humming away? A melody so memorable that it...
History: Louis XVI, aka Louis the Last
👑 Louis XVI, despite several achievements during his reign, is best remembered for being executed by guillotine. His death became a powerful symbol f...
Culture: The Con Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower
💸 During the Roaring Twenties, Paris was celebrating, but it was also the scene of one of the most spectacular scams of all time. In 1925, con man Vi...
Literature: Prosper Mérimée, and the Origins of Carmen
✍️ 2025: Carmen celebrates its 150th anniversary! But behind Bizet's flamboyant opera lies a discreet writer with a clear, fast-paced, and simple styl...
Art: Open Cezanne
👨🎨 Paul Cezanne didn't paint reality; he painted his emotions. A major 19th-century French painter, often considered an Impressionist and the fathe...
History: the Enlightenment, the Century that Illuminated the World
💡 The Enlightenment, also known as the "Age of Reason," was a dynamic period of intellectual and cultural development. Thinkers such as Voltaire, Rou...
Travel: Arles, the Little Rome And Many More
📷 Arles, in Provence, is most famous for its Roman ruins, including the arena, the ancient theater, and the Thermae of Constantine. It's also home to...
Literature: The Voyages Extraordinaires of Jules Verne
🚀 Let's dive together into the fascinating world of Jules Verne, a visionary master of adventure and science fiction from the 19th-century. Through h...
Sport: Pétanque, Such a Fanny Game!
🪩 Pétanque, a beloved French sport, combines skill, strategy, and fun. The 2024 World Championship in Dijon showed exciting matches last week, with t...
Music: Édith Piaf, The Sparrow Who Made the World Sing
🎙️ Edith Piaf, nicknamed La Môme Piaf, lit up the world with her unique voice and timeless songs. Small in size, but immense in talent, she transforme...
Travel: Paris Through the Ages
🗼 Welcome to a fascinating conversation about Paris, the City of Lights! From its rich history and stunning architecture to its vibrant culture, Pari...
Literature: Albert Camus' "L'Étranger", who's the real Stranger?
✒️ “The Stranger” by Albert Camus is one of the most widely read books in the world to learn French. With a simple and refined style, in Algeria in th...
Food: What is the Nutri-Score?
🚥 The Nutri-Score, a nutritional labeling system introduced in France in 2017, helps consumers choose healthier foods by classifying them from A to E...
Art: Surrealism, How Far Can We Dig into the Imagination?
☂️ Surrealism, an artistic and intellectual movement born after the First World War, revolutionized art by exploring the unconscious and dreams. Artis...
Fashion: Unbottling the Secrets of Scent
👃 Let’s dive into the complex and magical world of scents, into the aromas of flowers, fruits, plants and animals. And explore how and why perfumes a...
Music: What Secrets Lies Beneath the Palais Garnier?
🎼 The construction of this architectural masterpiece of the Belle Époque lasted seventeen years. Between assassination attempts, insurrections and gh...
Art: Who is Marjane Satrapi?
🇮🇷 Few artists can boast of bringing together areas of conversation as varied as art, literature, cinema, politics, religion, society and sport. This...
Culture: How is July 14 (Bastille Day) celebrated?
🥳 Between the storming of the Bastille in 1789, the great military parade on the Champs-Élysées, the spectacular fireworks, the popular balls and the...
Sport: Marie Marvingt, the Fiancée of Danger
💪 Do you know Marie Marvingt, this forgotten French superhero? Imagine a real life Wonder Woman: flying planes, climbing mountains and winning sports...
Travel: Normandy, From Viking Invaders to Camembert Crusaders
🌳 Normandy, where the Vikings exchanged their horned helmets for camembert and cider, is also famous for D-Day on June 6, 1944. Between historic beac...
Cinema: Who is Catherine Deneuve?
☂️ Ready to dive into the magical world of Catherine Deneuve’s films? After six decades of magic (and still active), she is undoubtedly one of the top...
History: What are the Treasures of the Louvre?
⟁ Very few topics manage to combine so many interesting areas. With the Louvre, more than eight centuries of history, arts, architecture, power and po...
Art: Impressionism, the Birth of Modern Art
🎨 1874 marks the birth of this essential artistic movement that is Impressionism. That year, several dissident artists decided to exhibit together th...
Literature: Marguerite Duras, from French Indochina with Love
✍️ With masterpieces like “A Barrage Against the Pacific” and “The Lover,” Marguerite Duras made an essential name in 20th-century French literature....
History: The Dukes of Burgundy, France's Best Frenemies
⚔️ Burgundy in the 15th century, duchy of all excess, luxury and ostentation. Main trading center of north-west Europe and home of the Flemish primiti...
Food: What's the Real Traditional Swiss Raclette?
🧀 A white winter evening. Breathtaking views of hundreds of miles of moonlit Alpine mountains. Inside a chalet, a fireplace crackles while heating a...
Cinema: Ousmane Sembène, Father of African Cinema
🇸🇳 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 Semb...
Art: Vincent Van Gogh, Between Shadow and Light
🎨 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...
Linguistics: How to Ask Questions?
❓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 comp...
Art: Why is Mona Lisa so Famous?
👩🏻 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...
History: Versailles, Of Power and Beauty
🏰 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...
Cinema: Who is Alain Delon?
🕶️ 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...
Food: The art of harvesting grapes
🍇 September is that time of the year when wine makers gather the grapes to turn it into wine. Each year's new millésime heavily relies on the Summer...
Travel: À Avignon / En Avignon ?
🎭 Needless to introduce the widely famous Avignon bridge on which generations of people have danced in circular motion. But Avignon is much more than...
Music: Unveiling the Genius of Maurice Ravel
🎼 About a century ago, composer Maurice Ravel wrote his "Boléro", the most performed piece of music to this day. Yet, despite that success, Ravel rem...
Food: Say cheese!
🧀 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 d...
History: Clovis, the First King of France
👑 Cruel, legendary, violent, powerful, intelligent. So many adjectives that could be attributed to this mythical figure. Clovis was real for sure, bu...
Science: Ariane, the World is not Enough
🚀 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 evolut...