The Great Tours: France through the Ages

by John Greene

Streaming video, 2020

Status

Available

Call number

914.4048412

Collection

Publication

Great Courses (2020), 24 lectures, 30 minutes each, 284 pages

Description

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.

Language

Original language

English

Local notes

[01] Point Zéro: Charting Our Course [02] The Birth and Rise of Paris [03] The Splendor of Versailles [04] Paris in Revolution [05] Northeast to Champagne [06] Normandy at War: Beaches and Bunkers [07] Normandy at Ease: Painters and Pilgrims [08] Brittany: The Wild West [09] The Loire Valley: Among the Châteaux [10] Bordeaux and the Coast of Aquitaine [11] The French Basque Region and the Pyrenees [12] The Camargue: Land of the Cathars [13] Arles: A Jewel of Provence [14] Along the Riviera: From Marseille to Cannes [15] Corsica: The Isle of Beauty [16] Avignon: From Popes to Produce Stands [17] The French Alps, Lyon, and Beaujolais [18] Dijon and Burgundy: The Delicious Heartland [19] Alsace and Lorraine: France Meets Germany [20] Paris Transformed: La Belle Époque [21] Bohemian Paris: Artists and Expats [22] Paris: The Capital of Design [23] Paris and the Future [24] United France: Celebrating Together
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