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Podcast: Wait Five Minutes
Episode: The First Frenchman of Florida
Description: Four-hundred and sixty years ago yesterday, the French first landed in Florida. Guided by a man named Jean Ribault, they tried over the course of several years to establish Florida as a French colony - only to fail over and over again.
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