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missfattyfudgecake

notre dame cathedral

the moulin rouge

the pompidou centre

the champs elysees

the south of france where people holiday. ..

the cuisine ....frogs legs etc

the palace of versailles (marie antoinette)

noodles

mona lisa at the l'ouvre
sacre coeur and monmartre
sorbonne
book buying on the banks of the river
champs-elysee for shopping and people watching
Giverny- Monet's home and gardens
Fontainbleau
Notre Dame
Mont St-michelle
google these and you will see more of what France has to offer

susana_c619

Interesting facts about France
Land
France is the largest European country for land area after Russia and Ukraine.
Nearly 20% of the territory of France lies outside Europe and known as "DOM-TOM" (overseas departments and territories), where over 2.5 million French citizens live.
According to a 2008 study published by Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank, the municipality of Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, between Nice and Monaco, is the world's most expensive peninsula, and the world's third most expensive place for real estate - after London and Monaco. Prices per square metre were found to be twice higher than in Tokyo and three times higher than in Paris.
The 45th parallel north, which marks the theoretical halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole, is said to be the limit between Northern France, where the OÃ¯l dialects are spoken, and Southern France, where the Occitan dialects prevail. It is also the boundary between the butter and olive oil cuisines.
The tides in the region of Brittany and Normandy are the strongest in Europe, with a difference in level of up to 15 meters between high and low tide.
People & Lifestyle
French people cheek kiss to greet each others between family and friends, even between men. The number of kisses varies according to the region, from 1 (e.g. in the tip of Brittany) to 4 (e.g. Paris and most of the North), and occasionally up to 5 in Corsica.
According to a 2004 IFOP survey, 44% of French people are Atheists (up by 24% since 1947).
French people have the highest female and third highest male life expectancy in the European Union.
According to the WHO (2002 stats), French men have the lowest incidence of obesity in the EU (women come 2nd after Denmark).
There are between 5 and 6 million of more or less seriously handicaped people in France. This includes physical, sensorial and mental handicaps.
20% of the French people live in the Parisian region.
AndrÃ© Gide, French writer and Nobel Prize of Literature, said "French people are Italian people in bad mood".
Although French language is a direct descent of Latin, French people have some of the most diversified genetic make-up Europe, with genes inherited from the Celts (or Gauls), the Basques, the Romans, the Franks (originally from the Benelux) and the Normands (originally from Denmark), which explains the wide physical diversity in French facial traits, as well as hair and eyes colour. Germanic/Nordic blood is more present in the North and East of the country, Celtic blood in Little Brittany, Basque blood in the South-West, while the rest of the country is mostly made up of people of "Gallo-Roman" (i.e. Celtic and Italic) ancestors. [=> see map of ethnicities in Europe]
Immigration
4.9 million foreign-born immigrants currently live France (8.1% of the country's population), including 1.2 million of other Latins (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese), 1.5 million of Maghrebans (Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians), and 570,000 from sub-Saharan Africa.
Recent immigrants and their offspring make up over 10% of the population of France, including 8.7% of Muslims.
40% of all immigrants live in the region of Paris. 60% of sub-Saharan African immigrants live in the region of Paris.
Language
French used to be the language of the nobility and diplomacy all across Europe and in the Ottoman Empire, then the world's first real international language until English replaced it in the mid-20th century.
Metropolitan France counts several native regional languages : Alsatian and Lorraine German (both High German dialects), Occitan (incl. Gascon and ProvenÃ§al), OÃ¯l dialects (such as Picard and Poitevin-Saintongeais), Basque, Breton, Catalan, Corsican and Franco-ProvenÃ§al.
In spite of foreign stereotypes, many French people can speak at least one foreign language (45% are able to participate in a conversation in a foreign language according to Eurobarometer in 2005), and English is the most widely spoken (34%).
Only 86% of French people are native French speakers if this is defined by the language their parents spoke with them before the age of 5. Oc languages account for 3.65%, OÃ¯l languages for 3.10%, German and German dialects for 3.15%, and Arabic for 2.55%.
French was the official language of England for 300 years. It is still the official language of 30 countries worldwide.
French language is spoken by 270 million people worldwide (almost as much as the population of the USA), of which 120 million are native or fluent. There are less than 60 million of White Caucasian native speakers of standard French worldwide.
The variety of French spoken in Quebec, Canada, is a distant dialect from the French spoken in Europe, and sometimes hard to understand for French people.
History
The name "France" comes from "Frank", a Germanic tribe that invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 6th century and founded the first independent kingdom covering most of today's France.
The French state is one of the olde

Annie P

Ok all the facts that were written above are all very useful....put I suppose it is difficult to persuade people like that. It might be easier to seperate the three paragraphs into three themes... For instance, like the three colours of the French flag, Red, the colour of wine- so you could talk about Bordeaux etc, the blood spilled during the revolution which could lead you into talking about 'The Terror' the guillotine, Marie Antoinette basically Frances rich history because of la revolution! How they fought for a fair and just republic! No coincidence that it was finished in 1889, 100 years exactly after the revolution. Red also the colour of love and that screams Paris. White; the colour of it's national symbol the lily 'fleur de lys', symbolic of French monarchy, it's the colour of flour, France bakes 70% of it's fresh bread every day for the people, in England it's about 30% so now you could talk about the importance of food! Charles de gaulle famously said how can anyone govern a country with 246 different cheeses? French food varies extensively from region to region, most of them have a day in which they celebrate their dish, such as the yummy Cassoulet in Toulouse I think. Blue, blue is the colour of the sea so..Cote D'azur! Beautiful weather down there and in the south generally, the lavender fields in Provence but then on the other hand, think of the fabulous Alps where the snow falls thick in the winter. So there is something for everything. Blue is also their national football team colour, could talk about their passion in sport, Thierry Henry and Zidane...

People visit France for it's interesting history, it's food and the 'paysage'.
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christinee â™¥

- France has great architecture
- The culture itself
- Why Paris is called the city of love?
- Each region of France is different from another

Isa

You can find inspiration here: http://travel.slickon.com, there are sme interesting articles of a journey from London to Monte carlo through Paris. I think you can find something

girlcute

the museum. (forgot name, sorry!)
cafes are places where u just hand out and stay for hours!
there is a famous bridge 2!
olympic games r really kool here (biking)

for more.....
go to google and type "famous places in Paris"

hope i helped!

Pilot R

u can write about beggars in france

SeXxiiEuroChick

they suck

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