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Month Five: 
France / Canada / Switzerland

"There is one thing to which I shall never yield:

it is the suppression of the truth."

--Théophraste Renaudot

Story #1: Saint Genevieve

424-512 A.D., France

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Saint Genevieve
00:00 / 04:59
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Story #2: Alcuin

735-804 A.D., France

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Alcuin
00:00 / 10:56
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Story #3: Charlemagne

742-814 A.D., France

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Charlemagne
00:00 / 12:52
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Story #4: Louis IX

1215-1270 A.D., France

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Louis IX
00:00 / 11:44
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Story #5: Joan of Arc

1412-1431 A.D., France

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Joan of Arc
00:00 / 19:34
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Story #6: Paracelsus

1490-1541 A.D., Switzerland

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Paracelsus
00:00 / 14:35
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Story #7: Bernard Palissy

1510-1589 A.D., France

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Bernard Palissy
00:00 / 09:06
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Story #8: Theophraste Renaudot

1586-1653 A.D., France

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Theophraste Renaudot
00:00 / 13:06
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Story #9: Jeanne Mance

1606-1673 A.D., France / Canada

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Jeanne Mance
00:00 / 14:02
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Story #10: Valentin Jameray Duval

1695-1775 A.D., France

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Valentin Jameray Duval
00:00 / 04:54
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Story #11: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

1746-1827 A.D., Switzerland

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
00:00 / 11:55
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Story #12: Madame Roland

1754-1793 A.D., France

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Madame Roland
00:00 / 13:29
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Story #13: Charles de Labussiere

1768-1802 A.D., France

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Charles Labussiere
00:00 / 16:39
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Story #14: Barthelemy Thimmonier

1793-1859 A.D., France

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Barthelemy Thimmonier
00:00 / 08:47
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Story #15: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

1796-1875 A.D., France

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
00:00 / 13:42
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Story #16: Victor Hugo

1802-1885 A.D., France

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Victor Hugo
00:00 / 15:44
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Story #17: Harriet Martineau

1802-1876 A.D., England (French Huguenot descent)

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Harriet Martineau
00:00 / 07:57
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Story #18: Jean Henri Fabre

1823-1915 A.D., France

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Jean Henri Fabre
00:00 / 14:36
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Story #19: Marie Curie

1867-1934 A.D., France

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Marie Curie
00:00 / 10:42
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Story #20: Eve Lavalliere

1868-1929 A.D., France

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Eve Lavalliere
00:00 / 02:30
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Story #21: Gilbert Talbot

1891-1915 A.D., England (Buried in France)

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Gilbert Talbot
00:00 / 08:44
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