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"et les odeurs disparaitront comme par magie !" 

I'm petty sure this should be disparaîtront, please can this be corrected ?

Thanks

Paul. 

I don't mark myself down for punctuation, but of course I still want to get it right. And I have a terrible tendency to use capital letters for roads etc the english way - i.e. "Rue de Quelque chose", "Place Quelque Chose" only to find that it should be "rue de Quelque Chose", "place Quelque chose" etc.
So I was expecting "le château de Versailles".  Mais non ! 

Is there any logic in this, or is it basically something that a native speaker just knows intuitively ?

I've been reading through the lesson and discussion comments to try to understand some of the subtle differences.

In English, if I go to a bakery and ask for "half a baguette", I'm asking them to take a full-size baguette and cut it in half. If I want a small but uncut baguette, I'd have to ask for "a half-size baguette" or a "mini-baguette".

I think the comments are saying that in French, "une demi-baguette" can mean either an uncut half-size baguette or half of a full-size baguette. Is that correct?

Thanks!

Are there any lessons about how to read longer numbers, e.g. 4,500,000? Or years, like 1959? I feel like I've picked up how to read years from listening to podcasts, but it would be nice to be quizzed on them, and I don't how to read longer numbers. 

If these already exist, consider adding links to them from this lesson. 

Thank you!