Partir du paradis (Leaving Paradise)

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🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Elodie Lauret yearned to discover what was beyond the island of La Réunion. But when she set off to Europe in search of better opportunity, she realized over time that the island would always be her place to call home.

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0:00.0	Elodie Lorette grew up longing to become a French intellectual.
0:04.4	She was born on Lille de la Reignion.
0:07.0	It's a tiny island that's part of France,
0:09.5	but is located the east of Madagascar
0:12.3	in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
0:14.5	Her whole life, Elodie, felt like an outsider on the island.
0:30.0	Then I was isolated and I felt like a prison.
0:35.0	I wanted to discover the world.
0:40.0	Elodie was certain that by age 17, her real life would begin.
0:44.0	That's when she'd be old enough to go to La France métropolitaine,
0:48.4	aka the French mainland.
0:51.0	It's often shortened to La métrobole.
0:53.6	She longed to leave her island behind and experienced the world.
0:59.0	An enemy was left in La métrobole.
1:02.0	When she came back, she talked a lot.
1:06.0	The big stores, the tourist, the Champs-Élysées, Paris,
1:12.0	were the paradise.
1:15.0	But what Elodie discovered in La métrobole
1:17.0	complicated her understanding of the little island she came from
1:21.0	and turned her concept of paradise on its head.
1:25.0	Gavanou and welcome to the Duolingo French Podcast.
1:30.0	I'm your host and go fan and go to Wellet.
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