France

In order to vote in France you have to be a registered voter. On the day of elections, you walk to the polling station, where you will show your voting card to prove your identity, you will then be led to a private booth to cast your vote.

Products of Lorainne include electronics, telecommunications, lasers, and biotechnology has compensated partly for the decline of these heavy industries. Other key industries include timber-paper, food processing, glass and foodstuffs. Lorainne is well known for its maufacture of stringed instruents, lead-crystal, and glass.

Capital city is capitale.

The Eiffel Tower was built because Gustave Eiffel, the architect, wanted to enter a world-wide architectural contest. It was meant to be taken down 20 years later, but it served useful for communication, so they kept it.

the Eiffel tower is located in Paris, France.

Clockwise from the top, it has borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Andorra (Monaco and Andorra are microstates). The sea to the north is the English Channel, the sea to the south is the Mediterranean Sea, and the sea to the west is the Bay of Biscay, and beyond that lies the Atlantic Ocean.

The hottest city in France is Toulon. It has more sunshine than any other city in France. It has an average summer temperature of 84 degrees F.

Otto found time to strengthen and to extend the frontiers of the kingdom. In the east the margraves Gero and Hermann Billung were successful against the Slavs, and their gains were consolidated by the founding of the Monastery of St. Maurice in Magdeburg, in 937, and of two bishoprics, in 948.

France experienced universal suffrage -for men only- during the French revolution, and from 1848 onwards (only in 1944 for women).

The French would tend to say that France became a democratic country in the late 1800s. A cornerstone is the law protecting freedom of the press, passed in 1881. At the same period other major laws protecting the right to belong to a trade union or political party were also passed.

Reims was the capital of the Champagne province in the olden days. But in modern France, the capital of the Champagne region is the city of Chalons en Champagne

In French snails are escargots.

"cuisses de grenouilles" is the translation for frog legs.

She's alive.

France was governed by a monarchy before the French revolution.

Benjamin Franklin travelled to France to request aid from the French. Did you know that Ben Franklin was a very well-liked individual in both America and France?

here are a few numbers about Metropolitan (continental) France only:

Area: 551 500 km²

2889 km in land boudaries and 3427 km in coastline. The largest distance across is about 1000+ km.

The smallest circle in which all of France would be included has a radius of 541,33 km

They were the western front. But the different trenches were front line trenches, communication trenches.

French music originates from the classical sacred music of the catholic church with records predating Charlemagne.

Only the country of Andorra sits along the France-Spain border. If the Basques were to achieve independence, they would be a second country between France and Spain, but Basque independence is incredibly unlikely.

A US passport will do.

However, France is a part of the Schengen territories. Basically this means you can stay in France for up to 90 days on a normal short stay visa (given upon entry to the country). You must then be out of France at least 90 days before you are able to return again for a visit.

If you wish to stay longer you will have to apply for a different kind of visa.

That is based on my personal experience with travel back and forth to France. It would behoove you to read the article listed in related links.

they ate deer livestock cows goats moose ,birds fish and eels smoked or dried they also ate rabbits and porcupines

Cours de la Libération et du Général De Gaulle and Cours Jean-Jaures in Grenoble. (It changes names along its 7.8 km length.)

There are no only a kind of traditional French clothes. It is as the cheeses: each French region has its specific traditional clothes and folklore.