Episode 24 The Bastille
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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La Bastille Saint Antoine is an area of Paris that has enormous significance in French history, yet only lives in our memory. Elyse tells us who build La Bastille, what it was for, and how it became so important in French history. Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille, along with a lot of other famous and important people over the years. In this episode, we also talk about Bastille Day, a wonderful celebration all over France and how you can participate if you are in France this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start this episode about Paris, let me take a second to tell you that I now offer |
| 0:05.6 | audio tours of different Paris neighborhoods via a smartphone app called Voicemap. |
| 0:11.5 | I wish I could show all of my listeners around in person but unfortunately |
| 0:16.4 | there is not enough of me to go around so I hope you'll find taking me |
| 0:20.6 | around in your phone to be an acceptable compromise. |
| 0:24.0 | If you'd like to try a self-guided tour where I show you Paris and tell you some amazing stories |
| 0:30.1 | exactly where they happened, download the Voicemap app on your phone and look for |
| 0:35.7 | tours in Paris by Annie Sergeant. You can order tours through the app on your |
| 0:41.5 | phone but if you'd like to enjoy a special discount for |
| 0:44.7 | podcast listeners visit join us in France.com forward slash audio tours to order your |
| 0:51.4 | tour activation codes and I'll see you in Paris. |
| 0:57.0 | This is join us in France episode 24. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, I'm Annie and I'm Elise. |
| 1:02.0 | And we welcome you to the |
| 1:03.0 | Join us in France Travel Podcast. |
| 1:05.2 | Elise is a professional tour guide, art historian, and a really good storyteller. |
| 1:10.6 | Yack-A-Yack. On today's show, Elise tells us about Bastille Day. As you may know, Bastille Day is on |
| 1:19.3 | July 14th in France. As a matter of fact, we call it LeCator duier. |
| 1:24.6 | We don't call it Bastille Day at all. |
| 1:26.5 | We call it the 14th of July. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm going to really need this episode at least because I know all about zero about this subject. |
| 1:37.0 | Well you actually probably know more than you think you know, but we'll start at the beginning, which is always where I like to start because somehow you know I went to school in France but we didn't I don't remember maybe I snooze through it which I probably did it's entirely but I don't remember ever being taught about this for some |
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