French subtitles for clip: File:Algier1954.ogv
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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,214 (♫ upbeat, busy-sounding music) 2 00:00:02,314 --> 00:00:07,710 Algiers — a busy piece of metropolitan France transplanted across the Mediterranean. 3 00:00:07,710 --> 00:00:11,216 Frenchmen have lived and ruled here since 1830. 4 00:00:11,216 --> 00:00:15,915 More than one million Frenchmen in Algiers rub elbows with more 5 00:00:15,915 --> 00:00:18,194 than ten million Muslims. 6 00:00:19,041 --> 00:00:23,984 Man on horseback, symbol of France, stands in Algiers' main square. 7 00:00:25,447 --> 00:00:28,338 On the surface, Muslim and Frenchman live well together: 8 00:00:28,338 --> 00:00:30,666 They shop in the same stores. 9 00:00:30,666 --> 00:00:36,122 Street cafés on a quiet afternoon. Even a milk bar. 10 00:00:36,250 --> 00:00:38,161 (♫ mysterious-sounding Arabian flute music) 11 00:00:38,261 --> 00:00:42,650 The Casbah, the Muslim quarter, locale of a thousand adventure stories. 12 00:00:42,650 --> 00:00:46,002 A part of the non-French past. 13 00:00:52,063 --> 00:00:55,543 The beaches of Algeria are just across the Mediterranean from the Riviera. 14 00:00:55,543 --> 00:00:58,884 The bathing suits are just as brief, 15 00:00:58,884 --> 00:01:01,496 the lovers just as tanned. 16 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:03,616 (♫ drum-heavy dance music) 17 00:01:03,716 --> 00:01:06,868 Algiers is wild and wicked, and gay and naughty. 18 00:01:08,099 --> 00:01:11,261 The European there always saw something wild and exotic about 19 00:01:11,261 --> 00:01:13,242 the Southern shore of the Mediterranean.