Le clown « undercover » (The Undercover Clown) - Revisited
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Le clown « undercover » (The Undercover Clown) - Revisited

B2Upper-intermediateJanuary 16, 202423 min

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 David, an engineer by day and French clown by night. Stick around until the end for an update on what David has up to since the first episode aired! A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/424ViWh.

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Bonjour, dear listeners. For this special season of the Duolingo French podcast, we're celebrating the arts. We're revisiting some of our favorite episodes featuring singers, dancers, actors, and other performers in the francophone world.

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Today's episode is from February 2020, and it features a type of performance that has deep roots in France, the art of clowning. Our storyteller today loves to dress up and make people laugh, but for a long time, he had to do it undercover.

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Listen to his story to find out why, and stay tuned until the end for an update. In 2002, David Ess was late for a meeting. He hurried back to the headquarters of a French energy company where he worked as an engineer. Before going in, he stepped into the bathroom to make sure he looked presentable.

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