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Culture of FranceFrance has been a center of Western

cultural development for centuries.

The creation of the Ministry of Culture in 1959 helped preserve the cultural heritage of the country and make it available to the public.

The Centre des monuments nationaux (National Monuments Center)  is a French government body which conserves, restores, and manages historic buildings and sites which are the property of the French state

Hôtel de Sully, rue Saint-Antoine, Paris, headquarters of the Centre des monuments

nationaux

GovernmentThe French Republic is a unitary semi-

presidential republic with strong democratic traditions.

François Hollande, elected President of the French Republic in April

2012

Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of France

since March31, 2014

ARTSThe origins of French art were very much

influenced by Flemish art and by Italian art at the time of the Renaissance. 

 Jean Fouquet

Nicolas Poussin

 Claude Lorrain

• MONA LISA – made by the great Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci but acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797

• Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also known as Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps) is the title given to the five versions of an oil on canvas equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.

Architecture

Eiffel Tower(1889) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris , 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall,

 about the same height as an 81-storey building.

Villa Savoye  (1929) a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France.

Unité d’Habitation, Marseille (1952) a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier

The chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (1954) in Ronchamp , is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier twentieth-century religious architecture

The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary arts located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France. The museum is the largest temporary exhibition space outside Paris in France with 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft) divided between 3 galleries, a theatre, and an auditorium.

The Louvre Museum Pyramid, Paris (1989)

• serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. It has become a landmark of the city of Paris.

• a place of culture created and designed to bring to the general public more knowledge and a greater understanding of the Arab world

Arab du Monde lnstitute, Paris (1988)

Carré d’Art, Nîmes (1993) in southern France houses a museum of contemporary art and the city's library.

•The Millau Viaduct (2005) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millauin southern France.•the tallest bridge in the world with one mast's summit at 343.0 metres (1,125 ft) above the base of the structure.

Literature• Molière - a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. One of his best-known works is Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope)

• Victor Hugo- one of the most important French novelists and poets, and is the greatest French writer of all time. His best-known works are the acclaimed novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)

•Charles Pierre Baudelaire - a 19th-century poet, writer, and translator.•His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century .

•Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre - a 20th-century French philosopher and novelist, playwright, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critict.

Philosophy

•Rene Descartes- founder of modern philosophy.

•French philosopher, mathematician and writer 

• credited as the father of analytical geometry

• Cartesian coordinate system 

Music Indigenous folk music

Classical musicGabriel FauréClaude DebussyHector Berlioz 

Modern pop music French hip hopFrench rocktechno/funk turntablists

• Fête de la Musique was created in France, a music festival, which has since become worldwide. It takes place every June 21, on the first day of summer.

•CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC - The modern forms of art music including serial music, electroacoustic music,  experimental music, atonal music, Spectral music, sound art

•FRENCH CLASSICAL MUSIC - began with the sacred music of the Roman Catholic Church, with written records predating the reign of Charlemagne. It includes all of the major genres of sacred and secular, instrumental and vocal music. 

POP MUSIC

•DAVID GUETTA - a French house DJ and music producer. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions 

Carla Bruni•A beloved French singer and she became the first lady of France. Her trademark is gorgeous, intimate songs over light acoustic guitar, with lyrics like poetry.• Bruni continues that tradition with her third French language album, Little French Songs.

Cinema

• France remains a leader in filmmaking, as of 2006 producing more films than any other European country.

•France has historical and strong links with cinema.

•Auguste and Louis Lumière (known as the Lumière Brothers) created cinema in 1895, credited to be first filmmakers in history.

Cannes Film Festival •one of the most important and famous film festivals in the world.•an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from around the world.

Movies

Madeline is a 1998 live-action film adaptation of the book series by Ludwig Bemelmans

Actors and Actress EVA GREEN – Actress and Model

DAVID BELLE - actor, film choreographer and stunt coordinator

Sports

•TONY PARKER – Point Guard of San Antonio SPURS

• FRANCE NATIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM – top 8 in the Basketball ranking in the world•FIBA EUROBASKET 2013 CHAMPIONS

FRANCE NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM • top 10 in the Football ranking in the World•1998 FIFA World Cup Champions

The Tour de France is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. The race was fi rst organized in 1903 to increase paper sales for the magazine L'Auto

French Food

Foie gras

Steak-frites

Products

•Garnier

•Loreal

Tourism

 Eiff el Tower, Paris

French Riviera Pont Alexandre III

Palace of Versailles

A love lock or love padlock is a padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically the sweethearts' names or initials are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away to symbolise unbreakable love.

Cannes, France

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Pont de l'Archevêché is for your lover

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