Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The First Frenchman of Florida
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The First Frenchman of Florida
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.
Get your WFM Merch at Cast & Clay Co. on Etsy!
Go to the Wait Five Minutes website for more!
Plan your visit to the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve!
Read more of Jean Ribault's writing here!
Hear more about Menendez in this previous episode of the show!
All of the music in this episode is originally composed.
View all episodes
By waitfiveminutes
4.9
157157 ratings
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.
Get your WFM Merch at Cast & Clay Co. on Etsy!
Go to the Wait Five Minutes website for more!
Plan your visit to the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve!
Read more of Jean Ribault's writing here!
Hear more about Menendez in this previous episode of the show!
All of the music in this episode is originally composed.
More shows like Wait Five Minutes
View all
This American Life
91,048 Listeners
Radiolab
43,977 Listeners
Fresh Air
38,487 Listeners
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
38,708 Listeners
The Moth
27,206 Listeners
99% Invisible
26,219 Listeners
Reveal
8,358 Listeners
Pod Save America
87,705 Listeners
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
59,311 Listeners
Throughline
16,241 Listeners
The Al Franken Podcast
8,590 Listeners
Consider This from NPR
6,404 Listeners
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
10,896 Listeners
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
10,899 Listeners
The Telepathy Tapes
8,324 Listeners