Before we start this episode about Paris, let me take a second to tell you that I now offer audio

tours of different Paris neighborhoods via a smartphone app called Voicemap.

I wish I could show all of my listeners around in person but unfortunately

there is not enough of me to go around so I hope you'll find taking me around in

your phone to be an acceptable compromise.

If you'd like to try a self-guided tour where I show you Paris and tell you some amazing stories

exactly where they happened, download the Voicemap app on your phone and look for

tours in Paris by Annie Sergeant. You can order tours through the app on your phone

but if you'd like to enjoy a special discount for

podcast listeners visit join us in France.com forward slash audio tours to order your

tour activation codes and I'll see you in Paris. the the This is in, episode 79.

Hello, I'm Annie, and join us in France is an independent travel

podcast about all things French.

On the show we discuss places you can visit in France, French food, French wine, French culture, French history, a little bit of French language thrown in the mix, all put together to help you enjoy your next visit to France to the fullest.

It's great to be back after a wonderful vacation where I saw a lot of new things and a couple of

them had to do with France so I'm sure I'll be talking about them on the

podcast but that will be for another day it'll be more fun for you to hear

about this vacation while I'm chit-chatting with the least and me just telling you about my vacation. So today I'm going to tell

you a story that so gripped me that I haven't stopped reading and thinking about it while on vacation.

It's a story of courage, intelligence and success that took place between Poland and France.

Our story begins in Warsaw in Poland where at age 17 a young girl who went by

mania made the tremendous decision that would lead her to being the first female to receive a Nobel Prize in any

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