France

The croissant was actually invented in Vienne, to celebrate the defeat of the Turks in 1683 (or it might have been 1529, who knows, the Turks were always beseiging the place). In France, this sort of pastries are called Viennoiserie. So, ALTHOUGH THE STANDARD BREAD LOAF IS A PAIN PARISIEN, THE CROISSANT IS REALLY NOT PARISIAN.

Anyway, what is a croissant? it is a roll of flaky pastry made with bread dough. This presents special problems, because anybody who has made flaky pastry will tell you that it needs to bekept COOL, while the raising agent in bread dough is yeast, which has to be WARM. French bakers, with centuries of practice, manage to reconcile these differences, but amateurs who try the job make an awful mess. Either the butter between the layers melts, or the yeast deactivates.

Once the basic pastry is made - layer upon layer of thinly-rolled dough alternating with layers of butter - it is cut into isosceles triangles and rolled up from the base, ending with the apex. The two ends can then be curled round to make horns, and the finished article cam look just a bit like the crescent on the Turkish flag. Into a hot oven with it, and with luck it will expand and become crisp on the outside and indescribably delicious on the inside.

WARNING: if you have never been to France, you have never tasted a croissant. Evry French baker can make them, and nobody else. Vienna? Don't make me laugh. I don't think the Viennese croissant was ever flaky, anyway.

The population of France in 1939 was approximated to be 41,510,000. In this year, there were more deaths than births with a natural change of minus 30,000.

It is cold and it snows. I lived in Germany (shares the border with France) and was never so cold in my life. If you are going to be there in winter take a down coat. Heating is not like in the United States and in some cases houses have only one heated room, no running hot water. Water is heated for the kitchen sink with a heating element you fill up with water and heat. Washing machines heat their own water, and bath water you heat per bath.

They both share the English Channel; they are both terminus points for the Chunnel (a railroad tunnel that goes beneath the English Channel); they both believe that the other doesn't know how to properly cook food (and they are both right); they are both on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean from Canada & the USA.

Turkey's area is 780 580 sq km. France's area is 550 500 sq km. So Turkey is nearly 1.5 times the area of France.

The Bordeaux Mérignac airport is situated 10 minutes to the west of Bordeaux.

If a trade barrier was increased, this means that the government will be restricting global change more. This would limit the amount of products that is traded

Determining how many people visit the Pantheon is difficult to calculate. The Pantheon is a free attraction. It is estimated that nearly 1,677,808 people visit each year, though the number could be much higher.

Many tourists come to see the cathedrals, shopping districts and also famous landmarks such as the Eiffel tower (tour Eiffel ), notre dame and arc de triomphe.

Dakar to their colony of Senegal, Tunisia, next door to their colony in Algeria and Madagascar they established a little colony on the northern tip of the island.

Saint Nicholas,s day is held on December 6.

1. The king and queen's lifestyle was extremely lofty

2. France was involved in many wars

3. Bad harvasts caused more people to become poor, causing the economy to sink

No exact number is known, but it's estimated to be around 2.2 million to 3 million people.

Give or take around 200 consisting of mainly leopards with designations c1/a6 and a2/a6 alot of the c1's have been upgraded to a c2 designation with all the trimmings for around 139 million ^^

there very powerful impressive tanks with add on armour and the Canadian soldiers that operate them are among the most brave and accurate in the world !

Scotland is part of the UK- the United Kingdom, and is just above England. France is on the other side of the channel and is another country altogether. In France they speak french, use the Euro, and in the north are mountains so you can go skiing whereas in the south it is nice and hot. In Scotland they speak English with a Scottish accent and use the pound (it's colder in Scotland).

i have it in my history text book if u want the book is called Canada revisited grade 7.plz look for this book somehow because it has the answer pages 60,61,62,63,64,and 78.

Also,if you don't have the book, don't search Google,it gives you things that are useless.

Cote d'Azur is French for the "Blue Coast", a reference to the color of the Mediterranean sea and probably the wonderful blue color of the skies in the region, which have attracted painters to the area over the centuries.

the french are big cyclers they have tour de France that basically goes the perimeter of the country

David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.

A country is not the sort of thing that gets 'invented'. The area of Europe now known as France has been divided in many ways throughout history, with very different borders and land areas, and has had several names, including 'Gaul' in Roman times. The country took its present borders in 1919, at the end of WWI. You might just as well say 'Who invented Mexico?' Like the USA, Mexico has has varying shapes and sizes.

No. French Polynesia, of which Tahiti is the largest island, is an overseas country in France, not an overseas department. Therefore, its subdivisions, including Tahiti, are not departments.

the king of France in 1717 was Louis the 17th.

In most, even nearly all French schools, you can have a lunch. It is not free, but rather cheap - about the price you would pay for a basic sandwich. If you prefer to commute regularly home to have lunch, this is usually possible but parents have to opt for that at the beginning of the school year.