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Official name: French Republic
Capital City : Paris
Area : 551,500
Highest point: Mount Blanc 4,810 m
Climate : Temperate; Mediterranean in south
Population : 58,286,000
population Change: 0.8% per year
Life Expectancy : Males 73, females 81 years
Languages : French, Arab, German, Breton, Catalan
Currency : Franc = 100 centimes
Population per Doctor : 333 people
Time Zone : GMT+1
Military Expenditure 3.4% GNP


France was the first country to produce Brandy for wide scale commercial scale.

The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.

There are 216 varieties of cheese in France!

Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wife's.

Chasing a chicken though town naked was a punishment for a woman who committed adultery.

It is illegal to sell an E.T doll in France as they have a law that forbids the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.

In France a yellow flower represents "infidelity".

there's a place called "Y" in France.

Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called "Cue", which was the name of a notorious pornographic magazine.

Napoleon was not born in France he was born on the island of Corsica and had Italian parents.

Francophobe is the fear of all things French.

King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.

Nearly 94 percent of the inhabitants of France are native-born.

No nation is more dependent on atomic power than France; about 73 percent of the country's electricity is generated by nuclear power plants.

National service is compulsory for 10 months for men between the ages of 18 and 35.

In 1348 the bubonic plague entered France from the Mediterranean via Marseille. The resulting pandemic, known as the Black Death, engulfed the country in two years, killing as much as one-third of the population

The French national anthem is called "La Marseillaise" (The Song of Marseille).

The French postal telephone and telecommunications systems are operated by the government.

France is a part of NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

France conducted a series of underground nuclear test's in the south Pacific from 1995 to 1996

The Eiffel tower varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches

 

 

 

 

 

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