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Area
550,000 sq. km
France is the largest country in
Western Europe (almost one fifth of the
European Union), with a vast maritime
zone.
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Plains cover two thirds of the total area.
Principal mountains:
the Alps Pyrenees JuraArdennes Massif Central Vosges
The highest peak of the Alps, Mont Blanc, 4,808 metres, is the highest mountain in Western Europe
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Coastline
(length:2900 miles)
Bordered by four seas
North Sea (Mer du Nord),
Channel (La Manche),
Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean
Three types of climates:
Mediterranean in the south
Oceanic in the west
Continental in central and eastern
France
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Farms and forests :->82% of the total area of France
7 national parks 156 nature reserves 516 designated areas for protected species 429 protected coastal areas
€47.7 billion is allocated to the protection of the environment (€755.00 per inhabitant)
France is party to many international treaties and conventions concerning the environment.
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Population:
63.8 million inhabitants
(98.1 inhabitants per sq. km)
->57 urban areas with over 100,000 inhabitants.
The five largest are:
1. Paris 9.6 million
2. Lille 1.7 million
3. Lyon 1.4 million
4. Marseille 1.3 million
5. Toulouse 1 million
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The French Republic : Mainland France (22 regions ,96 departments )4 overseas departments (DOM) - Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane (French Guiana) and Réunion 7 overseas territories – French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte (will be a department in 2011), Saint Pierre and Miquelon,Saint-Barthélémy, Saint Martin…) and one territory with special status: New Caledonia
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National Assembly _ Paris
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Palais de l’Elysée (Official residence of the President of the Republic)
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Palais du Luxembourg (Housing the Senate) in Paris
Paris Court House (Palais de Justice)
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
La Bourse, Paris Stock Exchange
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14 July, is a national holiday first celebrated in 1792. This date commemorates the capture of the royal prison, the Bastille, by revolutionaries in 1789It is intended to unite all French people in their loyalty to their country.Nowadays, July 14 is celebrated with a mixture of solemn military parades and easygoing dancing and fireworks.
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National Anthem:La Marseillaise started life as a revolutionary battle song and a hymn to freedom. It gradually gained acceptance as a national anthem. Nowadays it is performed at most official events.
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Les Bergers d’Arcadie – Nicolas Poussin (1629)
La Courtisane amoureuse - Pierre Subleyras (1699-1749)
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Diane sortant du bain _ Boucher (1742)
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Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix (1830)
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La Promenade, Pierre-Auguste Renoir(1906)
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Pierre Soulages
Ysabel Mavit
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Bernar Venet , French Conceptual Artist,born in 1941
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Orsay Museum _ Paris
Claude Viallat exhibition
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Louvre Museum _ Paris
Court House in Nantes, by architect Jean Nouvel
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Viaduc de Millau
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Arche de la Défense
Fondation Maeght
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La fête de la musique _ June 21st
Les Nuits de Fourvière; the Roman musical and theatrical evenings of Lyon, taking place on the hill of Fourvière
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Institut de France fom the Pont des Arts
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Louvre
Champs Elysées
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The Place de la Concorde, the Obelisque and in the background, the National Assembly
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Bateaux-mouche on the Seine river
Paris Plage
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame
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Chartres Cathedrale, Beauce
Chateau of the Loire (Amboise)
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Savoie
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Tours
Besançon ( Franche-Comté)
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Carcassonne
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Bonifacio (Corsica)
Gardens of Fontainebleau
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Bordeaux
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Lyon
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Avignon
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Between Marseille and Cassis, French Riviera (Cote d’Azur)
Avignon
Haute-Savoie (Lake Geneva)
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Port of Cannes
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Corsica
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Poitou-Charente
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Alpes-Maritimes
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Moselle
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Avoriaz
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Macon Wine Country in Saone-et-Loire
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Savoie (Chapel close to Lake Roselend)
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Château of Versailles
Gardens of Fontainebleau
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Lyon
Château of La Rochefoucauld
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Mont Saint-Michel
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Toulouse (Saint-Sernin Cathedrale)
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Joan of Arc Napoléon Bonaparte
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Victor Hugo
Marquis de Lafayette
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Louis Pasteur
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Yves Montand
Edith Piaf
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Tony Parker Marion Cotillard
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