France

The French spelling is Marseille, the usual English spelling is Marseilles. Both are correct in the language they are used in.

The same pattern goes for Lyon, often spelled Lyons in English.

how much postage is required to mail a postcard from Amsterdam to the U.S.?

The first of November is a bank holiday in France. It is traditional for families to go to the cemeteries and bring some flowers on the tombs of their loved ones. There is no other celebrations and the Halloween stuff didn't catch in France (despite commercial efforts)

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The Latin word for "citizen" is civis. This is a 3rd-declension i-stem noun (thus genitive singular civis, genitive plural civium) of common gender, meaning it can be either masculine or feminine depending on context.

a) For tourists

b) So it's not hit by a plane.

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 for $15 million.

France has 3 different nicknames :

- The country of the Human Rights : link to the french revolution and the declaration of Human Rights (cf The American Bill of rights as the Original source of Idea)

- L hexagone (geometric form with 6 sides) : That s the geographic representation of the country ( French people speaks about the 4 corners of Hegagone (Sic !))

- Marianne : More a nickname for The French Republic. She's representating the Democraty and the people s power against the establishement of the Kings.

Now she s still a Symbol of the Human Rights.

Voila , I hope it s more clear now ;)

Of course There's others Nickname but less famous or I didn t know them !

Julien

Like most of the world, France has traffic driving on the right side of the road, so the steering wheel would be on the left side of the car.

Some countries (notably the UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, South Africa, India and Pakistan) have traffic driving on the left side of the road, so they have steering wheels on the right side of the car.

Occasionally, you might see a visiting UK car, with right side drive, in Paris.

At the start of World War 1 France had about 350,000 Jews and by the end of war about 90,000 had been murdered. (These figures are estimates by Lucy Dawidowicz, reproduced in a table in the Wikipedia article on the Holocaust . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

One could argue: Frankish king Clovis I. See as follows...

The earliest archaeological signs of permanent habitation in the Paris area date from around 4200 BC. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the area near the river Seine from around 250 BC. The Romans conquered the Paris basin in 52 BC, with a permanent settlement by the end of the same century on the Left Bank Sainte Genevieve Hill and the Ile de la Cite. The Gallo-Roman town was originally called Lutetia, but later Gallicised to Lutece. It expanded greatly over the following centuries, becoming a prosperous city with a forum, palaces, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre. The collapse of the Roman empire and the fifth-century Germanic invasions sent the city into a period of decline. By 400 AD, Lutèce, by then largely abandoned by its inhabitants, was little more than a garrison town entrenched into the hastily fortified central island. The city reclaimed its original appellation of "Paris" towards the end of the Roman occupation. The Frankish king Clovis I established Paris as his capital in 508.

Notre Dame simply means our lady, so there are many churches devoted to the Virgin Mary called Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Chartres, Notre Dame de Rouen, etc.). The most famous Notre Dame Cathedral (with the Hugo story and Disney movie and all) is located in center of Paris.

Many early Chinese immigrants who came over in the 1800s were involved in providing services for the gold miners, they helped build the intercontinental railway, they raised and sold vegetables, among others. Culturally, they have brought Chinese food of different types and tastes, Feng Shui and a different way of looking at the world. This we can see from stories and books that are currently popular. One author is Amy Tan, whose stories reflect her mother's life both in China and the U.S.

Peasants during the beginning months of the French Revolution were afraid that their landlords would hire groups of thugs to come and destroy all of their crops.

There was no plan like this, and it was all a rumour. But the peasants believed it because the Revolution was bringing talk of new rights for the peasants, and the peasants thought that their landlords would never allow this to happen.

The peasants responded by burning all of their deeds that they owed to the landowners.

idont know can someone tell me plz. it keeps saying somthing like in Europe i wanna know for France.. NOT EUROPE OKAY

idont know can someone tell me plz. it keeps saying somthing like in Europe i wanna know for France.. NOT EUROPE OKAY

France is IN Europe. that's why its telling you for Europe not France. search something more specific. you doody face dummy

The French had just gotten beat in the French and Indian War by England. This meant that they had to give up all their land claims in the New World. So, the French hated the British and wanted them to be beaten.

unbelievable, incredible

Eiffel tower and notre dam church. that's all i know.

* Musee du Louvre * Musee de Cluny * Church of Sainte-Chapelle * Musee d'Orsay * Notre-Dame towers and crypt * Conciergerie * Arc de Triomphe * Musee Carnavalet (history of Paris) - this museum is now free * Musee de l'Orangerie * Musee Rodin