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Tom Villemaire

The History of France in English is a weekly podcast. Oddly enough, it's about the history of France and in the English language. Every week there is a larger piece on the history of France...

Episodes

20 of 44 episodes

History of France in English - Episode 43

This episode, Tom and Sandra look at the Alani, a tribe that makes its way all the way from the Persia to become one of the most dominate gr...

12:29May 20, 2020

Grub - The Story of Food - Episode 11

This episode, Tom and Sandra explore why English and more broadly, Brit food is saddled with such a bad reputation. With cities like London,...

09:29May 6, 2020

History of France in English Podcast Episode 42

This episode we look at the evidence of decline in Gaul as the Roman empire's grasp is loosened starting in the 3rd Century A.D. We see more...

11:56Apr 21, 2020

History of France in English Episode 41

Tom and Sandra look at life in Gaul at the height of the Roman Empire. With 21,000 kilometres of new roads built, hundreds of glass, iron, g...

14:20Feb 21, 2020

History of France in English Podcast - Episode 40

Hi, remember me? Yeah, it's been a while. Here's episode 40 and a promise for many more in the next year. I'm back after beating cancer (fin...

12:15Jan 22, 2020

History of France in English Episode 39

Finally after a long, long, long break, HoFiE is back. We pick up where we left off - with a look at Caesar's Gaul and his relationship with...

12:52Nov 12, 2015

The History of France in English Episode 38

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19:58Apr 8, 2014

History of France in English Episode #37

This week we sort of recap how we got to the point we're at and set the scene for what is left of Gaul and who lives there and what's going...

22:48Mar 6, 2014

History of France in English Episode #36

This week we take a break from the chronological history of France and take a look at the famous Gaul Claudius. Yeah, that Claudius. We also...

11:53Feb 24, 2014

The History of France in English Episode 35

This week we wrap up the war in Gaul between the Romans and the Gauls and Caesar and Vercingetorix... sadly. The Battle of Alesia puts an en...

14:25Feb 19, 2014

History of France in English Podcast episode 34

Caesar meets Vercingetorix and has a nasty time of it, almost getting chased out of Gaul. Meanwhile in Cocktail Party Slapdown, the French t...

22:22Nov 11, 2013

The History of France in English podcast episode 33

We continue our chronological history of France with Caesar still messing with Gaul in 52 BCE plus a Cocktail Party Slapdown and the Battle...

22:34Oct 18, 2013

The History of France in English Episode 32

This week, we return to the chronological story of the history of France as Gaul meets Caesar. Of course can't get enough of Gaul and so tak...

18:51Sep 18, 2013

The History of France in English Podcast - Episode 31 - French Contributions to Science - Part 2

We wrap up the look at France's major contributions to science and inventions with a lot of different things and people including work by Pa...

31:15Sep 6, 2013

The History of France in English Podcast - Episode 30 - French Contributions to Science - Part One

This week we start off a series of special podcasts on the history of France's contributions to science. We start at the end of the Dark Age...

30:12Aug 29, 2013

The History of France in English Podcast

This week in the History of France in English, we celerbate the life of a Frenchman who fought for the United States during the American Rev...

21:54Aug 16, 2013

History of France in English Podcast Episode 28

This week we wrap up our look at the Gallic influence in the Third Servile Revolt or the Third Slave Revolt, featuring Spartacus and the Gau...

28:05Jul 29, 2013

History of France in English Podcast Episode 27

This week we look at the History of France in English in the year 73 BCE as the slave revolt erupts in the Italian Peninsula we see familiar...

21:50Jul 9, 2013

The History of France in English Podcast Episode 26 OETZI UPDATE

This special edition, introduced by award-winning journalist Randy Richmond, updates us on the latest news from the podcast's favourite mumm...

18:12Jun 12, 2013

The History of France in English Podcast Episode 25

This week, Sandra returns to help out Tom as he copes with the Roman and French names of this episode. We deal with Rome as it tries to sett...

20:09Jun 10, 2013