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This free course was written by Elodie Vialleton, with contributions from Kate Fairbairn.

Week 1

Figure 3: Service d'information du Gouvernement (SIG) gouvernement.fr

Figure 4: Belgium, from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Belgium.svg; Chad, from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Chad.svg; drawn by SKopp; Luxembourg, from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg; drawn by SKopp; Senegal, from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Senegal.svg; Original upload by Nightstallion

Figure 5: Serena Williams: Mauricio Paiz / Alamy Live News; Hugh Grant: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo; Jodie Foster: Hoo-Me / SMG; Alamy; Kristin Scott Thomas: Maximilian Bühn; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en; Eddie Izzard: Stills Press / Alamy Stock Photo

Week 3

Figure 5: top left: Maridav; Shutterstock.com; top right: Dyana Wing So on Unsplash; bottom left: Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash; bottom right: Eva Blue on Unsplash

Figure 8: Engin_Akyurt; Pixabay; Open University

Week 5

Images

Figure 2: Valentin B. Kremer / unsplash

Audio

Audio 1: DavidGreck; LaSonotheque.fr /https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Week 6

Images

Figure 1: Elodie Vialleton using following from the Noun Project: Eiffel Tower by Cédric Villain, Atomium by Gerald Wildmoser; France map by Adrien Coquet; Flag of Quebec by Loïc Poivet; Mudejar Star by Evan Shuster; Fez hat by Savannah Vize

Activity 1: Eiffel Tower: John Towner on Unsplash; les bouquinistes: Roman Kraft / unsplash; Notre Dame: Marcel Strauß / unsplash; The Louvre: Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash; The Pompidou: Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash; The Arc de Triomphe: Rodrigo Kugnharski on unsplash; The Sacre-Coeur: Francisca Monteiro on Unsplash

Figure 2: Tomas Williams / unsplash

Figure 3: Didier Provost / unsplash

Figure 4: Yao Hu / unsplash

Figure 5: left: Jez Timms / unsplash; right: Siebe Warmoeskerken / unsplash

Figure 6: David Monniaux; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Figure 7: top left: Anthony Cantin / unsplash; top right: Clémence Bergougnoux / unsplash; bottom left: Weronika / unsplash; bottom right: Nicolas Prieto / unsplash

Figure 8: Jberkel; Based on mapsicon by Régis Freyd ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Figure 9: Maeva Blue / unsplash

Figure 10: Haka Tas / unsplash

Figure 12: left: Shawn Dearn / unsplash; right: Rich Martello / unsplash

Figure 13: Jordan Rowland / unsplash

Week 7

Images

Figure 2: nullplus / Getty Images

Figure 3: kupicoo; Getty Images

Figure 4: Zach Vessels / unsplash

Figure 5: falarcompaulo / pixabay

Figure 6: left: Janekvorik; https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bo%C3%AEte_aux_lettres_1990.jpg; right: The Carlisle Kid; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

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