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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

24 lectures (30 min. each)

Title from disc label

Wide screen

John Greene, University of Louisville

DVD, wide screen

In English; closed-captioned

Disc 1.

Point zero: charting our course -- Birth and rise of Paris -- 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 -- Loire Valley: among the châteaux -- Bordeaux and the coast of Aquitaine-- French Basque region and the Pyrenees -- 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 -- 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