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EP 3 | Le Bazar de la Charité (The Charity Bazaar) · The Learn French With Alexa Podcast

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  So chilvary is dead. Yeah.
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  Bonjour et bienvenue au podcast Learn French with Alexa.
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  Now, you know what we are going to do.
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  This is a new series where I'm going to cover a fact of history
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  in French, and I have two guests to talk about it with me.
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  So today we have the charming Katie.
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  Bonjour. Bonjour.
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  Bonjour, Katie, and ... George.
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  George. Bonjour.
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  Comment tu t'appelles ? Je m'appelle George.
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  J'ai 23 ans. 23 ans, très bien. Je suis étudiant.
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  Et je suis étudiant, oui. En art du jeu vidéo à
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  l'université. Très bien.
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  So George, you are 23, let me try to translate, and you're a
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  student in video games at university.
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  Yeah. Donc, tu étudies les jeux vidéo
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  à l'université. Katie, what is it you do?
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  You don't have to say it in French.
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  I don't think I could say it in French...
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  No. Quel âge as-tu ?
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  I am 22 years old. Donc, 22 ans.
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  J'ai 22 ans. Très bien.
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  Qu'est-ce que tu fais ? Qu'est-ce que tu étudies ou pas?
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  I studied music at university. I'm a singer, songwriter,
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  performer. Tu chantes, tu écris tes propres
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  chansons. And I know for a fact that Katie
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  is an amazing singer-songwriter because I've seen Katie perform
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  live many times, and every time she's wonderful.
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  Anyway, so we are going to do something together today.
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  I've asked you to come, and Katie, you said: "But I can't
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  speak French," and I said: "That's okay, actually, because
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  some of my listeners won't either."
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  George, I know that you speak a little bit of French.
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  Some. Okay.
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  How good do you think is your level?
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  Oh, I've fallen off a lot. I got a decent GCSE in it.
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  Right. And I did it for a while.
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  Yeah. An IB.
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  An IB. IB, which is a baccalauréat.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  So I can read quite well. I can read some French books
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  just about. Yeah.
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  But... And I can listen mm-mm okay.
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  Yeah. But when it comes to speaking,
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  I'm very bad. Well, let me be the judge of
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  that. Okay, so in today's podcast
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  we're going to talk about something that happened some
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  time ago. I will ask you, and I would like
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  you to concentrate on numbers, because that's where the focus
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  will be today. Okay?
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  And again, Katie, if you don't know, it does not matter.
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  I'm going to teach you quite a few bits today.
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  And this is the objective. So if you know French, play
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  along with us, answer the questions, and if you don't,
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  then learn. Learn what we are going to talk
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  about, and new vocab every time. This text is of A2/B1 level,
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  which means that it's not quite beginners, but it's
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  intermediate. Some of the words, even if you
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  are not French, you are going to understand.
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  And other words, of course, will be beyond what you know.
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  But that's okay, because the text will be translated fully at
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  the end anyway. Now, here's the first question
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  of the text, which I would like you to focus on.
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  Okay? Quand a eu lieu le Bazar de la
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  Charité ? So Le Bazar de la Charité is
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  what we are going to learn today.
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  You don't know what it's about yet.
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  We are going to learn what Le Bazar de la Charité is.
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  So "bazar" and "charité", do you know any of these words?
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  Is it like a charity shop or a charity bazaar?
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  A charity- Like the market? Yeah, that's kind of where I was
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  going with that. Exactly, because you've got two
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  words, "bazar" and "charité". Is "bazar" a word you use in
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  English? Mm, it depends.
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  In certain contexts, yes, but not usually.
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  Okay, so we are going to talk about that word "bazar" and how
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  we use it in French. So you will learn the word bazar
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  because it's a French word, but is it a French word?
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  And this is what we are going to learn today.
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  So the first question is "quand".
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  "Quand" means... When ... when.
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  When did this Bazar de la Charité took place?
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  So that's the first question. What you're going to look for is
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  a date, in effect. Okay?
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  And there is a second question, and I'm going to ask it now.
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  If you don't [get the answer], we'll read it again.
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  Okay? Combien de personnes ont péri
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  dans l'incendie ? How many people died in the
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  fire? So you can see straight away
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  what we are going to talk about. Something that happened back in
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  time, which was not a happy story.
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  Now, listen very carefully. Remember, "quand" means when.
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  "Combien" means how many. Combien de personnes?
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  How many people? So here we go.
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  Listen very carefully. Écoutez attentivement.
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  I invite all my listeners as well to listen very carefully to
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  the text named Le Bazar de la Charité.
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  Le Bazar de la Charité est une vente de bienfaisance annuelle
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  organisée par l'aristocratie parisienne pour aider les
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  pauvres. Le 4 mai 1897, environ 1200
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  personnes visitent les stands installés dans une grande
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  structure en bois. Un petit incendie démarre
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  soudainement dans le local du cinématographe et se propage
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  très vite à cause des boiseries et des décorations.
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  La structure n'a qu'une seule sortie, et la panique est
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  immense. En quelques minutes, 125
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  personnes meurent. Now I can see Katie thinking,
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  "Ah, I don't know." Anyway, the first question was:
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  Quand a eu lieu le Bazar de la Charité ?
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  When did the charity bazaar take place?
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  Did you manage to get something out of the text?
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  Go on, Katie. Not much, I can't lie.
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  If you give a guess anyway. When do you think this is
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  happening, and what is happening in the text?
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  I'm quite lost. That's okay.
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  George? I'm quite slow with dates, but I
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  know you said it happens annually in ... ...
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  I think you said it happened annually.
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  Annuel? Yeah.
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  Yeah, annuel. Every year around this time.
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  Okay. But did you guys get the date?
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  Le 4 mai 1897. Le 4 mai 1897. 18- 67 or ...
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  Okay, so there is seven. Definitely.
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  Le 4 mai 1897. 80, 87. No, um, 97.
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  Ah, okay. 1897. So it's not 67, is it 87 or 97?
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  97. But which century?
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  Mille- Huit cent... ... huit cent.
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  Okay, that's what you said. So mille huit cent, 1800.
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  Now, the hardest thing when you listen, and this is a listening
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  exercise, is numbers in French. Quatre-vingt-dix-sept.
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  In French, 80 is quatre-vingt, four 20s.
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  Did you know that? Quatre-vingt.
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  So in French, we say four times 20.
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  Okay, so quatre-vingt. But then quatre-vingt-dix-sept,
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  is ninety seven Okay. 80 plus 17.
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  It's 80 plus 17. So we have to do a lot of maths
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  in French. So quatre-vingt-dix-sept would
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  be four times 20 plus 10 plus seven.
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  So 1897 would therefore be dix-huit cent (1800) and then
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  quatre-vingt-dix-sept. Okay, so if I say it again,
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  mille huit cent or dix-huit cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept.
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  Does that make sense to you? Is it better?
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  Yeah. So if you wanted to say 98, it
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  would be four 20s plus 10 plus eight, quatre-vingt dix-huit.
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  Okay? Quatre-vingt-dix-huit. 1999,
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  mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.
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  Okay, if it's 1999. In the text, we are talking
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  about mille-huit-cent. So, in 1897, something happened.
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  What happened? I'm guessing the fire?
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  The fire of Le Bazar de la Charité.
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  So I'm going to read the text again.
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  How many people died during the fire?
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  You've got the answer. I think I've got it.
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  Go on. 55? Cinquante-cinq?
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  Non. Non.
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  But there may be a five somewhere.
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  Listen really carefully to the text one more time.
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  Le Bazar de la Charité est une vente de bienfaisance annuelle
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  organisée par l'aristocratie parisienne pour aider les
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  pauvres. Le 4 mai 1897, environ 1200
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  personnes visitent les stands installés dans une grande
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  structure en bois. Un petit incendie démarre
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  soudainement dans le local du cinématographe et se propage
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  très vite à cause des boiseries et des décorations.
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  La structure n'a qu'une seule sortie et la panique est
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  immense. En quelques minutes, 125
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  personnes meurent. So what is the answer to my
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  second question? Combien de personnes ont péri
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  dans l'incendie ? How many people died in the
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  fire? Cent vingt-cinq.
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  But I don't know how to translate that.
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  But that's very good because you heard it.
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  I thought you said "cinquante", not "cent".
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  Yeah. Ah.
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  So go on. Katie gave you the answer. 125.
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  125. So well done.
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  You heard it. You heard the number 125.
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  And you managed to translate it, which is very good.
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  Wow. We're a good team.
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  A very good team. So cent-vingt-cinq.
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  Cent is 100. It's spelled like "cent",
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  C-E-N-T. Vingt is 20, and cinq is five.
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  So Cent-vingt-cinq is 125. 125 people died in that fire.
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  It could have been avoided, and we are going to talk about that.
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  reach your goals, and it's all taught by me.
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  Use code ALEXAPOD for 15% off.] What we know so far is that we
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  have a Bazar de la Charité. It's a charity event, isn't it?
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  C'est un Bazar de la Charité organised by "l'aristocratie
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  parisienne". So what do you think that means?
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  Parisian aristocracy. It's exactly the same word.
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  So "organisé annuellement", so every year, by the "aristocratie
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  parisienne". What would be the equivalent
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  nowadays of this kind of event, do you think?
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  Like the Met? Except they don't really do it
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  for the poor. Okay.
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  So it's a charity event, isn't it?
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  I suppose that when you raise money, for example, we were at a
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  quiz on Friday. And that was organised for the
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  "charité", for the wild bird sanctuary.
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  That was Le Sanctuaire des Oiseaux.
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  So I suppose that though it was not organised by "l'aristocratie
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  parisienne"... I guess it'd be quite similar to
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  Red Nose Day. Yes, or something like that.
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  So [le bazar de la charité] took place in Paris, and was
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  organised by the richest people. So we've got that now.
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  We've got the context. Here's another question: Did you
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  get where the fire started? So fire in French is an
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  "incendie". We say "feu" as well.
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  Fire is "feu", F-E-U. Where did the fire start in this
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  charity event? I heard something about
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  decorations. I think it was somewhere around
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  there, in that sentence. It started because of the
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  "boiseries", "bois" is wood, and "décorations", but it started in
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  the "local du cinématographe". Oh, like a theatre?
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  Cinématographe. Cinematographers, something?
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  So the film projection room. So the film projection room.
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  So bear in mind, it's 1897. Okay?
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  It's mille-huit-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-sept.
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  And you're in a small place with, in all, they were 22
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  stands, and a little room of cinematography being played, I'm
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  assuming on the loop. You had to pay for it.
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  I don't know how the event was. So we have lots of information
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  now, but how many people visited the actual charity event?
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  I could be wrong, but I feel like I heard "mille" in there.
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  Very good. You're not wrong.
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  So mille- A thousand. And then was it 1,200?
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  Very good. See, with the two of you, you
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  managed. So 1,200 is the number of people
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  that came to visit. 1200 personnes visitent les stands
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  installés dans une grande structure en bois.
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  So "bois" is? Drink?
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  Alors "boire" ... is to drink. "Boisson" is the drink.
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  But "le bois", c'est "wood". Okay?
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  "Le bois" is the wood. Do you remember the word for
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  fire? "Incendie".
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  "Incendie", very good. "Incendie".
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  So we're talking about an "incendie qui démarre".
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  "Démarrer" means to start. Démarre soudainement.
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  Suddenly: Soudainement. Okay?
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  A lot of the adverbs that we have in French would be quite
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  the same in English. So where you have the -ly
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  ending, in French it ends with -ment.
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  Soudainement. Rapidly?
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  Rapidement. Rapidement.
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  Yeah. So the adverbs of manner, like
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  this one, would end with -ment in French.
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  So we've got numbers. 1897 is what?
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  It is when it was held. Okay. 1,200 personnes is?
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  How many people attended. Uh-huh. 125?
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  How many died. How many died.
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  Oh. How many died.
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  Okay. So we've got the answers to both
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  question. I will go back to the text in a
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  minute, because when I read it all to you again, it's going to
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  sound clearer. And I know, Katie, you don't
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  speak French, but you're going to get it.
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  Hopefully. And this is what the idea behind
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  this podcast is, by the way. There is a lot of English
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  spoken, but at the end of the day, we are learning little
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  bits, and hopefully, you will be able, even if you are A1 level,
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  to understand the text fully once you hear it again.
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  Okay? So here's an extra question.
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  Fact: 125 people died in the fire, but how many were men?
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  I'm going to give you numbers. So in French: 125 personnes ont
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  péri dans l'incendie, mais combien d'entre elles étaient
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  des hommes? "Hommes" meaning "men".
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  And do you know what the word for women is?
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  "Femme". And children?
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  "Enfants". "Enfants", very good.
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  So "enfants, hommes, femmes". Okay?
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  Donc combien... how many people, how many men died?
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  Cinquante, Sept ou trente-quatre?
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  So "cinquante" is? 50.
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  "Sept"? Seven.
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  And "trente-quatre" is? 34.
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  Yeah. So how many people, men, not how
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  many people. We know how many people died,
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  125. Yeah.
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  But according to you... it's a question, there is no right or
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  wrong. There is a right, but you don't
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  need to know that. How many people out of all these
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  people that died, unfortunately, in this fire, how many women?
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  Cinquante, 50; sept, 7; ou trente-quatre, 34?
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  What do you think? I reckon 50.
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  Cinquante. Yeah.
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  I would say almost half, probably.
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  Almost half. Okay.
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  So according to you, "cinquante hommes ont péri dans
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  l'incendie". It was only 7.
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  Really? Yeah.
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  And two of whom were children, unfortunately.
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  So just 5. And why do you think that is?
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  I would've assumed more men would've attended.
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  More men would have attended? Yeah, that's why I went 50,
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  but... So that's one of the
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  explanation. The explanation is that actually
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  there were more women who attended.
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  So there were less men victims during the fire.
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  Were they all at the bar getting drunk?
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  Well, actually, there is an article, and I wanted to tell
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  you later, but I may as well. There was a rumour that
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  according to the newspapers at the time, the men of high
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  society present at the time of the fire had done everything in
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  their power to escape the flames, jostling, trampling, and
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  using their canes and fists to clear a path for themselves.
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  So chivalry is dead. [laugths] I think it is as Katie
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  said. What do you expect?
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  Of course, at the expense of women left to the mercy of the
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  fire, crushed on the ground and suffocated.
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  And so apparently, the newspapers at the time widely
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  reported this account, denouncing and mocking the men.
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  And there was even a New York Times headline on May 16.
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  So the title, Cowardice, is it how you say it?
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  Cowardice. "Cowardice of Paris Men
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  Exhibited in Brutal Form During the Burning of the Charity
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  Bazaar" But apparently today, it's seen as an exaggeration
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  because a few men were present inside the bazaar.
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  But also, they noted that a lot of ordinary people came to the
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  rescue of these women. So the thing is, a lot of women
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  died during this fire because of what they were wearing.
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  Do you know what women of high society were wearing in 1897 or
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  1997? I can only assume quite
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  flamboyant dresses, quite big, maybe corsets or- Like hoop
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  things. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Quite difficult to move around
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  in, I assume. Elles portaient un pantalon en
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  dentelle. So what's "un pantalon"?
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  I'm going through each layers here.
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  Trousers. Trousers is a "pantalon".
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  Yeah. Like pantaloons.
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  And "dentelle" is lace. "Dentelle" is lace.
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  So lace trousers to start with. That's what they had as their
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  underwear. Elles portaient un pantalon en
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  dentelle. Then, "un cerceau métallique".
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  So what is that? Something metallic.
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  I don't know the word for it even in English.
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  Yeah. Un cerceau is a hoop.
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  Donc, so imagine a "pantalon en dentelle", and then they had the
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  metallic hoop around them. "Cerceau métallique".
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  Then, "un premier jupon". So over that, they had "un
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  premier jupon". So what was that?
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  The first... The first "jupon".
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  "Jupe" is a skirt. A "jupon" is a petticoat.
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  Donc elles avaient le pantalon en dentelle.
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  Elles avaient le cerceau métallique, le premier jupon.
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  Premier. First.
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  So le premier jupon. Un second jupon à volants.
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  So then after that, il y avait un second jupon, deuxième jupon.
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  "à volants" is ruffled. So a second ruffled petticoat.
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  Et ensuite, un troisième jupon. Un troisième jupon.
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  Donc premier, second/deuxième, troisième...
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  Un troisième jupon. Et une robe.
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  Une robe? A dress.
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  A dress. A robe.
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  We use this English word not for the same as dress.
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  You use robe for... Like an overcoat...
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  Like a... ... thing, like pyjamas almost ... a dressing
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  gown. Yeah.
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  Like a robe. Yeah.
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  Une robe. Une robe.
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  Donc, le pantalon à dentelle, le cerceau métallique, le premier
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  jupon, le deuxième jupon à volants, le troisième jupon, et
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  ensuite la robe. C'est combien, c'est cinq?
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  Trois, quatre, cinq couches. Which means that this restricted
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  their movements during the fire, hindering their escape in the
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  event of a fire. And, [the clothes were made] of
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  highly flammable fabrics. Fabric in French is "tissu".
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  Like tissue. Donc c'était des tissus
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  hautement inflammables. Which explain why women,
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  unfortunately, were caught, more than the women of lower classes
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  who were not wearing all of these.
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  And so it turns out that during this charity event, high society
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  women passed away, unfortunately, because of what
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  they were wearing. Mm-hmm.
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  So that's a little bit of history.
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  And here's another question for you.
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  Combien de temps a-t-il fallu pour que le feu se propage?
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  Now "propager" means to propagate.
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  How long did it take for the fire to propagate?
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  Soixante minutes, quinze minutes, ou quatre-vingt-dix
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  minutes? Donc, soixante minutes, c'est ?
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  60? 60.
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  Quinze minutes, c'est ? 14?
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  No, you're very close, though. 15.
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  Yeah, 15 minutes. 15. Very good. 15 minutes.
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  Et quatre-vingt-dix minutes? 90. 90.
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  We've learned that "quatre-vingt-dix" is four 20s
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  plus 10. Quatre-vingt-dix.
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  It's hard to get your head around, isn't it?
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  The 90s and the 80s. And especially when you go on to
• 26:44
  92, for example. You would have to say four
• 26:49
  twenty twelve, because twelve is not "ten two".
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  Twelve is "douze". So 92 would be?
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  Quatre-vingt-douze. Very good.
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  Quatre-vingt-douze. So that's where it becomes quite
• 27:02
  hard to grasp. So how long did it take for the
• 27:08
  fire to propagate: 60 minutes, 15 minutes, or 90 minutes?
• 27:13
  I think I'm going to say 90 minutes, because I'm just
• 27:15
  imagining them trying to run, and it's going really, really
• 27:18
  slowly. But they still just can't get
• 27:20
  out, and it's going so slowly, and it's so unfortunate, and
• 27:23
  it's so terrible. It's so horrible.
• 27:24
  I'm so sorry. Am I traumatising you guys?
• 27:26
  Sorry, guys. I've done the same with the
• 27:28
  first two podcasts with Satie and Liam, and they were shocked
• 27:33
  about what I... But this series is what it's all
• 27:38
  about, by the way. It's quite dark So 90 minutes?
• 27:44
  I reckon 60. 60 minutes. It took 15 minutes for the fire
• 27:52
  to propagate. And there was only one exit.
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  And the men with the canes were making their way out...
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  I'm saying that, and I'm sure a historian would say, "Well,
• 28:06
  that's not at all the way it happened."
• 28:08
  Again, I'm not an historian. I'm just reading the facts on
• 28:14
  some of the researches we've done on this.
• 28:19
  But 15 minutes, it's what it took.
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  And it makes sense, because in the small text, I talk about
• 28:30
  "boiserie". "Boiserie" is the wood stuff,
• 28:36
  decorations. So you can imagine.
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  Yeah... The women, they just couldn't
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  get out, because of what they were wearing.
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  And so 15 minutes, unfortunately, is how long it
• 29:01
  took. So now I want to talk, before I
• 29:05
  read the text again, about the word "bazar".
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  So "bazar" has different significations or meanings in
• 29:15
  French nowadays. Does it mean a mess?
• 29:28
  Is it referring to a piece of clothes or clothing?
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  Or is it referring to a utensil? You say ustensil or utensil?
• 29:38
  Utensil. So the word "bazar" in French
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  nowadays refers to a mess, a piece of clothing, or a utensil?
• 29:48
  What do you think? I'm going to say a mess.
• 29:52
  I think the historical significance might...
• 29:55
  I would also say mess. It is.
• 29:57
  Very good. So, it does mean a mess.
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  So "bazar" has come to mean a disorderly collection of
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  objects. You would say, "Oh, quel bazar
• 30:10
  !" What a mess.
• 30:11
  Yeah, that's the way we would say it.
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  For example, my son's bedroom. La chambre de mon fils.
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  "Quel bazar ! Quel bazar !"
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  And it may be used as well when referring to a confusion
• 30:28
  situation where everything seems disorganised.
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  So you can talk about a room, but you can talk about a
• 30:35
  situation, "C'est un bazar. C'est un bazar pas possible."
• 30:39
  But originally, the word "bazar" started being used in France in
• 30:46
  the 15th century. And it comes and was borrowed
• 30:51
  from the Persian word to refer to a public market.
• 30:55
  And I'm assuming that's the way you know it in English.
• 30:59
  Yeah. Do you know the word "bazar"?
• 31:02
  Yeah. Have you been to a bazaar?
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  It's normally quite a higgledy-piggledy... junk shop
• 31:08
  kind of thing, which... Yes, exactly.
• 31:10
  That's what a bazaar is. And that's how you would use it.
• 31:13
  Oh, I went to a grand bazaar, I think, in Turkey, in Istanbul.
• 31:17
  They have a big, a massive market.
• 31:19
  Yep. Yeah.
• 31:20
  Yeah. Where they sell really big and
• 31:21
  intricate rugs and things like that.
• 31:23
  That's it. That's exactly what bazaar is,
• 31:26
  really. And it comes from the Persian.
• 31:30
  And it first appeared in travelogues, like it's a blog in
• 31:34
  the 16th century. So travelogues, travellers.
• 31:38
  Yeah. ... So back in the time, even back
• 31:41
  in the 15th century, you had people writing about travelling.
• 31:44
  So that's your equivalent of vlogging nowadays.
• 31:49
  Travel blog. Anyway, as the centuries passed,
• 31:53
  the word "bazar" came to be used to refer to a department store
• 31:59
  that offered a wide variety of goods at modest price.
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  So the bazaar is the exact opposite of a specialty store.
• 32:09
  Like you say, it's all over the shop.
• 32:15
  But we use it for "un bazar", the same way as you use it in
• 32:19
  English, but we use it for a mess as well.
• 32:23
  Okay. "Ah, quel bazar !"
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  So le bazar de la Charité would have been then the charity
• 32:32
  bazaar, okay, or kind of boot sale.
• 32:37
  It was like a boot sale. A fundraiser?
• 32:40
  A fundraiser. Yeah.
• 32:45
  What do you think was being sold in this Bazar de la Charité back
• 32:49
  in 1897? There were only 22 stalls. 22
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  stands. Can you imagine what was
• 32:57
  being... Well, yes, if there were rich
• 33:01
  people going, it would be quite rich objects, maybe a lot of
• 33:05
  jewellery. Yeah, absolutely.
• 33:06
  I imagine music boxes or little trinkets like that.
• 33:09
  Maybe. Yeah.
• 33:10
  Absolutely. So you had jewellery and art,
• 33:15
  high-end, fine art pieces, and luxury items donated by wealthy
• 33:20
  patrons. Collectibles as well, various
• 33:23
  merchandise, novelties such as the music boxes probably, and
• 33:27
  they were displayed across these 22 or up to 28 themed stalls.
• 33:33
  And a lot of second-hand goods, household goods as well.
• 33:39
  I'm not sure about the dresses, whether they were being sold.
• 33:45
  Another thing that was being sold during this Bazar de la
• 33:48
  Charité, it's a bit the same as an event that you would find
• 33:53
  here, I suppose, nowadays. Entertainment and tickets,
• 33:57
  lottery tickets, and viewing inside a small moving picture
• 34:01
  cinema, which unfortunately was where it all started.
• 34:07
  Mm. I'm going to read [the text]
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  again to you, okay? And you stop me every time you
• 34:15
  don't understand a word, and I will translate, okay?
• 34:18
  I'll stop you throughout the whole time.
• 34:20
  Every word. You can.
• 34:21
  Le Bazaar de la Charité est une vente.
• 34:27
  Vente. Event?
• 34:28
  No. "Un événement" is an event, but
• 34:30
  a "vente" is a sale. De bienfaisance annuelle
• 34:36
  organisée par l'aristocratie parisienne pour aider les
• 34:41
  pauvres. It's clear, isn't it?
• 34:44
  So [a charity sale] pour aider les pauvres, this is to?
• 34:48
  To help the poor. Yes.
• 34:49
  Very good. Well done.
• 34:52
  Very good. Le 4 mai 1897, environ 1200
• 35:00
  personnes visitent les stands installés dans une grande
• 35:06
  structure en bois. Yeah, is that clear?
• 35:09
  Mm. Ish.
• 35:11
  Like 1,000 people visited... "Environ" is Roughly.
• 35:17
  So environ 1,200 people visitent les stands installés dans une
• 35:22
  grande structure en bois. "Les stands" is the stalls.
• 35:28
  "Installés" is installed. "dans une grande structure en
• 35:32
  bois". In a big wood structure.
• 35:35
  Unfortunately for all of them. Un petit incendie.
• 35:42
  A little fire. Démarre.
• 35:45
  Started ... soudainement. Suddenly started.
• 35:49
  Dans le local du cinématographe. In the room of the
• 35:57
  cinématographe. Et se propage.
• 36:00
  And it spreads. Exactly.
• 36:03
  Très vite. Very quickly.
• 36:06
  À cause des boiseries et des décorations.
• 36:11
  À cause de means? Because of ... because of this
• 36:16
  wood structure, and the decoration.
• 36:19
  The "boiserie" would be the paneling, the wooden paneling.
• 36:23
  La structure n'a qu'une seule sortie.
• 36:29
  Okay. There was an exit.
• 36:32
  There was one exit. Une seule.
• 36:34
  So unfortunately, la structure n'a qu'une seule sortie.
• 36:39
  So "n'avoir que", when you hear "que", it's "has only."
• 36:43
  Elle n'a qu'une sortie. It has only one exit.
• 36:48
  Et la panique est immense. A big panic.
• 36:51
  Very good. La panique est immense.
• 36:54
  En quelques minutes 125 personnes meurent.
• 36:59
  So how would you translate this? En quelques minutes.
• 37:04
  In how many minutes? In an amount of minutes?
• 37:08
  In just a few minutes. In a certain time.
• 37:10
  Within minutes. Quelques minutes.
• 37:13
  "Quelques" means some, a few. Dans quelques heures, in a few
• 37:19
  hours. Dans quelques minutes, in a few
• 37:22
  minutes. En quelques minutes, 125
• 37:27
  personnes meurent. Do you remember?
• 37:33
  One hundred and twenty five. Very good.
• 37:37
  "Meurent" comes from "mourir", to die.
• 37:41
  When you conjugate it, it becomes "ils meurent".
• 37:47
  So this is the text. How was that the third time
• 37:52
  around? It's getting there.
• 37:53
  Is it? But was it clearer?
• 37:55
  A lot clearer. For sure.
• 37:57
  Yeah? Mm-hmm.
• 37:59
  So what words have you learned today, would you say?
• 38:04
  "Cent-vingt-cinq". Very good.
• 38:08
  You heard that one, which was very good.
• 38:10
  "Bois", I think, was one I like. When I think of wood, I only
• 38:15
  think of trees, bark. I don't think of the actual
• 38:18
  material. We used "Le bois". because we
• 38:24
  talked about the wooden paneling, which was "boiserie".
• 38:27
  "boiserie". "La boiserie".
• 38:28
  But you thought it was to drink, because when you say, "Je bois,"
• 38:32
  it's "I drink." Same spelling.
• 38:35
  "Je bois". So "une boisson" is a drink.
• 38:39
  I understand why you would have been confused by that.
• 38:43
  Okay, so words such as "décoration" is the same,
• 38:49
  "panique" is the same, "structure" is the same,
• 38:52
  "organiser" is the same, "aristocratie" is the same.
• 38:58
  So when you read a text, try to pick on the words that sound
• 39:03
  very similar to English. Yeah.
• 39:05
  Any other questions you may have on this text?
• 39:10
  Hmm. Did they hold it again the next
• 39:15
  year? Good question.
• 39:17
  It's annually, right? I think I read somewhere, my
• 39:22
  people did some research. It was held again in another
• 39:26
  place, but in 1907. I read it somewhere.
• 39:29
  It's a very good question. I think it was held again, but
• 39:36
  not the next year. Okay.
• 39:43
  According to the research we've done, this charity bazaar
• 39:48
  carried on after the catastrophe.
• 39:52
  In 1917, something very similar was organised again in Paris.
• 40:00
  So I think there may have been a gap.
• 40:04
  Because from what I read, the organiser lost his sister in the
• 40:08
  fire. There must be a lot of very sad
• 40:14
  stories linked to this catastrophe.
• 40:17
  If you want to know more, there is a TV series called "Le Bazar
• 40:21
  de la Charité." I'm not sure whether you're keen
• 40:24
  on watching it now. It's a French TV series on
• 40:29
  Netflix, with a famous actress called Audrey Fleurot.
• 40:32
  If you don't know Audrey Fleurot, she's very famous for
• 40:37
  "Engrenages" [Spiral, in English], a TV series.
• 40:40
  She's this most beautiful woman with beautiful ginger long hair,
• 40:46
  and she is quite extraordinary in that TV series.
• 40:50
  And the first episode is all about the fire.
• 40:53
  So if you can handle it, it's incredible the way it's filmed.
• 40:58
  So "Le Bazar de la Charité," a series of 2019 available on
• 41:06
  Netflix. Fabulous.
• 41:08
  Did you enjoy that? Yeah, I did.
• 41:11
  Loved that. Great.
• 41:12
  Did you learn some things? Yes.
• 41:14
  Yeah. I've learned that I need to
• 41:16
  practice my French. But that's okay.
• 41:20
  You came in and you did say: "I speak no French."
• 41:22
  And I said: "That's fine. We're going to teach you some."
• 41:25
  Did you learn a bit more than you know?
• 41:27
  Yeah. Great.
• 41:29
  Yeah? Yeah.
• 41:29
  And did you enjoy listening to this piece of news or...?
• 41:36
  Yeah, it was interesting. Quite depressing.
• 41:38
  Well, yes. What's that word they use where
• 41:42
  it's like when something's dark, but you quite like it?
• 41:46
  It's like morbidly interesting. How's that?
• 41:49
  I'm so sorry about that. Yes, it is morbidly.
• 41:52
  No, but you're right. It's morbidly interesting, and
• 41:56
  we are doing a whole series based on facts like this.
• 42:02
  If you don't enjoy this kind of podcast, please let us know, as
• 42:06
  well as if you do. We need as much feedback as we
• 42:12
  can. That's it for me.
• 42:14
  Merci beaucoup. Merci beaucoup.
• 42:16
  Vous avez été extraordinaires. Really super.
• 42:22
  I'm glad that I managed to teach you things, and that you enjoyed
• 42:27
  being in the podcast. And hopefully see you again.
• 42:29
  Au revoir. Au revoir.
• 42:30
  Thank you for having us. Au revoir.
• 42:32
  Thank you. Merci.