Below are all the recommended music and online activities for the France chapter of Australia to Zimbabwe including:
- Listen to Edith Piaf
- Listen to French Composers: Ravel, Satie and Debussy
- La Marseillaise, French national anthem
- French World Music: Paris Combo
- Classic Hip Hop: MC Solaar
- French Revolution History
- Palace of Versailles
- Eiffel Tower
- Notre Dame
- The Red Balloon trailer
- Un Monstre a Paris trailer
- Julia Child Makes a Quiche
Edith Piaf-"La Vie En Rose"
Edith Piaf's La Vie En Rose in English
Edith Piaf's Non Je Ne Regrette Rien
Ravel's Bolero
Satie's Gymnopedie
Debussy's Claire de Lune
La Marsellaise
Paris Combo
Nouveau Western by MC Solaar
French Revolution by Khan Academy
Nutshell French Revolution
French Revolution with Crash Course World History
Versailles
Eiffel Tower by Mocomi Kids
History of the Cathedral of Notre Dame
Clip from The Red Balloon
NYT on The Red Balloon
Trailer: A Monster in Paris
Popular French Children's Film- "The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales"
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Edith Piaf-"La Vie En Rose"
France's most famous singer of all time sings "La Vie En Rose" or "life in pink," a song about how life feels when one is in love. -
Edith Piaf's La Vie En Rose in English
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Edith Piaf's Non Je Ne Regrette Rien
With English subtitles -
Ravel's Bolero
French composer Maurice Ravel's most famous piece, composed in 1928. -
Satie's Gymnopedie
French composer Eric Satie's "Gymnopedie" -
Debussy's Claire de Lune
French composer, Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune" -
La Marsellaise
With English translation. Though it's possible that the full lyrics are learned more in American high school French classes than by actual French people, it really gives you a feel for the French revolutionary spirit. Though every French person knows the tune well, it is not as popularly sung as the American national anthem. Some French find the words to be too war-mongering, bloody and divisive and so refuse to sing the words. -
Paris Combo
"Moi, Mon Ame et Ma Conscience" Infectious French world music with influences from American jazz-swing, French chanson and rhythms from Roma and North Africa. -
Nouveau Western by MC Solaar
Classic French rap from 1993. Find a translation of the song here: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/le-nouveau-western-wind-blows-arizona.html Here is how it begins: // // The wind blows in Arizona // A state of America where Harry Zona lives // Cowboy crazy, bang bang of the gun // What do we make of the weapon, the horse and what to make of “Woo Yess” // Pursued by Smith & Wesson // Colt Derringer, Winchester & Remington // He roams the plains, proud, lonely // His horse is his partner // Sometimes he meets Indian // But the gold rush is its sole purpose // His life takes a course that we know by heart // The river of no return Otto Premig // While John Wayne looks to Luke Luky // Clean as a archduke. Uncle Sam fooled me // We degraded Hollywood, Hollywood degraded! // In the life of every day as in // The new westerns // // They say beware of gorillas, but beware of Gary Cooper // The modern Western is located in the // The Asphalt Jungle: trains do not whistle // The Magnificent Seven have not an ounce of combat // Harry is now close to the East Station // It skips the time and place for a new Wild West // -
French Revolution by Khan Academy
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Nutshell French Revolution
from the YouTube channel, "Nutshell Education" -
French Revolution with Crash Course World History
The French Revolution as explained by Crash Course World History -
Versailles
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Eiffel Tower by Mocomi Kids
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History of the Cathedral of Notre Dame
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Clip from The Red Balloon
39 seconds, film originally came out in 1956 -
NYT on The Red Balloon
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Trailer: A Monster in Paris
Trailer for this 2011 animated French film, "Un Monstre A Paris." -
Popular French Children's Film- "The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales"
A trailer with English subtitles for "Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes," which came out in 2017. The graphic novel version of "The Big Bad Fox" by Benjamin Renner may be more easy to get a hold of.