French Guessing Game Podcast
In this “Qui est-ce ?” podcast series, Kwiziq’s own super detectives Aurélie and Céline will test your investigative skills as they give you clues (en français bien sûr !) to guess a famous Francophone personality. And to help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons, and interesting links to go further! Bonne enquête !
🎧 Ready to investigate? À vos calepins !
Welcome to the sixth episode of our podcast “Qui est-ce ?”! As usual, we (aka Céline and Aurélie) wish to thank all our wonderful Kwizzers détectives for your contributions to the episode 5 comment section 😍 Don’t forget that we will give you all a special shout-out by name in this very episode!👂😊
Today, you’ll have to figure out who the French royal figure is by listening to our specially crafted clues 🧐
🤗 À vous de jouer !
Did you guess who we’re talking about? How hard did you find it? How many clues did it take you to get it right?
Please let us know in the comments below, en français bien sûr ! We can’t wait to read you all 🤓
🔠🔎 Your Investigative Vocabulary
Here’s some useful vocabulary featured in this podcast to help you conduct your investigation:
- tenir à [faire] = to really want to [do] / to care to [do]
- un domaine d’investigation = an area of investigation
- s’attaquer à [quelque chose] = to take [something] on
- la monarchie = monarchy
- un indice = a clue
- un calepin = a notepad
- c’est parti ! = Here we go!
- une perruque = a wig
- des talons = heels
- luxueux = luxurious/fancy
- débattu(e) = debated
- l’État = the State
- concentrer les pouvoirs = to concentrate the powers
- le partage = sharing
- les arts et les lettres = arts and literature
- un siècle = a century
- devoir [quelque chose] à [quelqu’un] = to owe [someone] [something]
- ça se précise ! = we’re zeroing in/getting closer!
- détenir un record = to hold a record
- un règne = a reign
- le trône = the throne
- mais quand même ! = but still!
- élucider un mystère = to elucidate a mystery
- un homme-mystère = a mystery man
- un monarque = a monarch
Proper Nouns:
- Le Château de Versailles = the Palace of Versailles
- La Reine d’Angleterre = the Queen of England
🗒️🕵️♂️ Your Clue Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. Ce monarque portait souvent une perruque immense, des talons rouges et des vêtements extrêmement luxueux.
2. Sa phrase la plus célèbre (même si elle est débattue par les historiens) est : “L’État, c’est moi”.
3. Il est qualifié de monarque “absolu”, car il concentrait tous les pouvoirs (législatif, exécutif, judiciaire) sans partage ni contrôle extérieur.
4. Il a encouragé les arts et les lettres, en protégeant des auteurs comme Molière ou Jean de La Fontaine.
5. On lui doit la construction de l’un des sites les plus visités au monde : le Château de Versailles.
6. Il détient le record du plus long règne de l’histoire de France : plus de 72 ans sur le trône.
7. On le surnomme “Louis le Grand” ou, plus couramment, “le Roi-Soleil”.
💪 And now for some grammar practice! Test yourself on the grammar points highlighted in the clues above with a curated Notebook of the following Kwiziq lessons:
- Conjugate regular verbs in the imperfect tense in French
- Common mistakes with mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes and son/sa/ses
- Tout/tous/toute/toutes = Everything/all (of them)/whole/completely in French
- En + “-ant” = While/by + “-ing” in French
- Conjugate devoir in the present tense in French
- Plus de … que/Moins de … que/Autant de … que = More … than/Less … than/As much/many … as (Comparisons with Nouns)
- Forming adverbs from adjectives ending in -ant and -ent in French
📔🕵️♀️ Your Exploratory Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise
SPOILER ALERT 🫣 If you’ve already guessed our mystery royal and want to learn more about them, enjoy this exclusive Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise testing a mix of A1 to B1 French grammar lessons.
🗃️🔍 Investigate Further
Want to practise your French with royalty-themed exercises? Have a go at this majestic Kwiziq selection:
- Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise – Le Château de Versailles (Le Présent) (A1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – I, Louis XIV (A1)
- Dictée (Premium subscribers only) – Marie-Antoinette (A2)
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Don’t forget to share your findings with us in the comments!
À bientôt les Kwizzers détectives !
Author info
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!
For over ten years now, Céline has been teaching French and Italian to students of all ages and abilities in the UK. This French native speaker comes from Brittany, and likes crafts, Breton dance (of course!) and Breton music which she actually played for four years. She also has a fondness for European cinema and British History.