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La comédienne de balcon (The Balcony Performer) - Revisited
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- Arts & culture
To celebrate France’s love of culture, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes featuring francophone artists and performers. This episode, the story of Marie, a stage actor who found a way to keep French theater alive during the Covid lockdowns. Stick around until the end for an update on what Marie has been up to since the first episode aired! A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/4ba190U.
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Bonjour dear listeners. For this special season of the Duolingo French podcast, we are celebrating the arts. We're revisiting some of our favorite episodes featuring singers, dancers, actors, and other performers in the francophone world. Today's episode is from August 2021 and features actress and director Marie Benétit. During the COVID-19 pandemic, theaters were shut
down, but for Marie, acting was her whole way of life and she was determined to keep sharing her art. Keep listening to hear her story, and stay tuned until the end for an update from Marie. Now on to the episode. On October 28, 2020, 26-year-old Marie Benetti settled on her couch in her small Paris apartment and turned on the TV to hear French President Emmanuel Macron address the nation.
He delivered some very, very bad news. I decided that the country will be able to find the confidence that will stop the virus. France was going to be fully locked down, confiné, due to COVID-19, for the second time. Emmanuel Macron announced that France will be confident in the future, for the COVID-19
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