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We Are History

The Siege of Paris 1870-71

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9802 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How besieged Paris went into lockdown and the French were forced to survive by eating all the animals in the zoo, then their dogs and then the rats. But all beautifully cooked. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So yeah, if you sort of introduce the bit you want to talk about and then I'll chuck in.

0:05.3

Chuck in your two cents worth.

0:06.3

Two cents worth.

0:07.0

Two centimes.

0:08.0

Your de centimes worth.

0:09.1

Wait, way, way.

0:10.5

Allo.

0:10.9

Let's see this one in French, Angela.

0:12.4

Hello.

0:13.1

Hello.

0:13.9

Hello, Angelou.

0:15.0

I'm just we.

0:16.2

Oh, just we tre conton.

0:18.0

Le Saint-Gé d'enlabe. Oh. Do you remember Eddie's odd?

0:22.3

Edizard did that whole bit about trying to use his French.

0:24.7

He was going, I took this monkey in France.

0:26.6

I put up a tree in France.

0:27.7

They'll go, oh, the saint-gé-d-lap.

0:29.9

I remember doing my, it was actually my German oral exam for my GCSEs.

0:35.6

Yep. exam for my GCSEs. Yeah. And, you know, like, I just freeze in situations like that.

0:39.7

I can't think of the most simple things.

0:42.2

And you just, so the woman asked me, that's right, it just said on the bit of paper,

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