The Great Tours. France Through the Ages

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Call Number: DVD 914.404 Gr Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / History / Europe / Great tours France
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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"Course No. 8012"--Container.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Wide screen.
Disc 1. Point zero: charting our course -- The birth and rise of Paris -- The splendor of Versailles -- Paris in revolution -- Northeast to Champagne -- Normandy at war: beaches and bunkers. Disc 2. Normandy at ease: painters and pilgrims -- Brittany: the Wild West -- The Loire Valley: among the châteaux -- Bordeaux and the coast of Aquitaine-- The French Basque region and the Pyrenees -- The Camargue: land of the Cathars. Disc 3. Arles: a jewel of Provence -- Along the Riviera: From Marseille to Cannes -- Corsica: the isle of beauty -- Avignon: from popes to produce stands -- The French Alps, Lyon, and Beaujolais -- Dijon and Burgundy: the delicious heartland. Disc 4. Alsace and Lorraine: France meets Germany -- Paris transformed: La Belle Époque -- Bohemian Paris: artists and expats -- Paris: the capital of design -- Paris and the future -- United France: celebrating together.
John Greene, University of Louisville.
France ignites the imagination and dazzles the senses like no other country on Earth. In this thrilling travelogue, discover the 35,000-year-old cave paintings of Chauvet, the medieval castles of the Cathars, the palace of Versailles, and the sites where the French Revolution unfolded. Also explore romantic Paris; the Loire Valley châteaux; and France's food, wine, sublime art and architecture, and so much more.
DVD, wide screen.

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