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Lyon Travel Guide: Secret Passageways and Food Specialties
Episode 611
Annie Sargent takes you to Lyon in this episode. She met with Mikayla Sibner, an American who's taught French in Lyon for years, and they walk you th…
1 day, 16 hours ago
Camille Claudel: Betrayed by Family, Locked Away for 30 Years
Episode 610
Camille Claudel trained alongside Auguste Rodin. She fell in love with him. She became a brilliant sculptor in her own right. Then her family locked …
1 week, 1 day ago
How We Moved to Paris: Visa, Housing, and Healthcare
Episode 609
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Sacha Cohen and her husband spent two and a half years scouting France. They tried Rouen, Dijon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Catherine and Marie De Medici: Queen Mothers and Kingmakers
Episode 608
Two Italian banker's daughters married French kings. Both ended up ruling France. Annie Sargent sits down with Elyse Rivin to sort out Catherine de' …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
An Art Retreat in a Medieval Burgundy Village
Episode 607
In episode 607, Annie Sargent talks with Julie Lynch, an Australian costume designer turned painter, about her week-long art retreat in Noyers, a tin…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Eugène Delacroix: The Painter Critics Loved to Hate
Episode 606
Critics called his paintings smudges. He kept painting anyway. In this episode, Annie Sargent and Elyse Rivin tell the story of Eugène Delacroix, the…
1 month ago
Five Weeks Solo in Paris: 20 Museums and Hidden Gems, Episode 605
Episode 605
Five weeks solo in Paris. Twenty museums. Four monuments. And a whole lot of surprises. Annie Sargent chats with Larry Rosenblum to talk about his tr…
1 month, 1 week ago
Alexandre Dumas: Adventure, Scandal, and 100,000 Pages
Episode 604
Annie Sargent and Elyse Rivin dig into the life of Alexandre Dumas Père — and it's a wild ride. His grandmother was a slave. His father was the Frenc…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Puy du Fou, Arles Bullfighting, and Getting Pickpocketed in Paris
Cas McIntyre has visited France seven times and speaks French well enough to land in real trouble, and real fun. She joins Annie Sargent to swap stor…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Vichy's Story and the Best of the Allier Department
Episode 602
Annie Sargent just got back from the Allier department, dead center of France, and almost nobody visits it. In this episode, she sits down with Elyse…
2 months ago