"Mirapolis, le fiasco du premier parc d'attractions français" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
Before there was Disneyland Paris or Parc Astérix, there was Mirapolis, France’s first ambitious theme park. Built in the 1980s in Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, the park was meant to be a grand celebration of French culture and a magical destination for families. However, the story of Mirapolis is not one of triumph, but of a spectacular and surprising failure. In the video and its bilingual transcript below, learn about the fascinating history of Mirapolis, France’s forgotten park!
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Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!