FACTS ON FRANCE

• France was the first country to produce Brandy for widescale 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 wifes.
• Chasing a chicken though town naked was a punishment for a woman who commited adultary.
• It is illegal to sell an E.T doll in france as thay have a law that forbids the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.
• In France a yellow flower represents "infidelity".
• theres 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.
• Francophobia 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 goverment.
• France is a part of NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• France conducted a seris of underground nucular test's in the south Pacific from 1995 to 1996