france

     

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Trivia about france

  • This country's authors have won more Nobel literature prizes than any other, including the U.S.
  • The Quadruple Alliance began in 1813 against this country; in 1818 it let this country in & became the Quintuple Alliance
  • This country's King Louis IV was nicknamed "Louis From Overseas" because he was raised in England
  • There's a lighthouse at Cape Gris-Nez, this country's closest point to England
  • Quebec is the only province whose civil law is based on the Code Civile of this European country
  • Since 1819 Monaco's judicial system has been based on this neighbor's code
  • All of this country's Capetian kings descended from Robert the Strong, Count of Anjou & Blois
  • Major cities in this country include Marseilles, Orleans & Lyon
  • If its royal family has no male heir, Monaco will become part of this country
  • The poodle probably originated in Germany, though it's most associated with this country
  • Chemist Paul Lecoq de Boisbaudran named gallium after the Latin word for this country
  • After the invasion of Poland, Great Britain & this nation declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939
  • Louis the Stubborn, Louis the Do-Nothing, & Louis from Overseas were all kings of this country
  • Montrachet
  • This country's King Louis XVI was guillotined in the square once named for King Louis XV
  • Marseille, this country's main seaport, is on its Mediterranean coast
  • "La Marseillaise"
  • Saint-Pierre & Miquelon
  • On Sept. 5, 1781, 24 of this country's ships engaged British ships in Cheaspeake Bay & turned them back
  • The only country outside the British Isles where the Titanic ever anchored
  • In July 1778 a fleet commanded by Admiral Charles D'Estaing reached America from the country
  • In 1910 Madame La Baronne de Laroche of this country became the 1st certitifed woman pilot
  • At the time of the war, Britain was involved in a long-standing struggle with this country
  • The southern midsection of this nation is known as the Massif Central
  • Only country whose nationals the French will not allow to join the French Foreign Legion
  • Henry captured Boulogne-sur-Mer in this country in 1534
  • Called the "Citizen King", Louis Philippe was the last king of this country
  • In 1792 its king was overthrown & it became a republic
  • Napoleon III
  • In the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 Britain obtained Newfoundland from this country
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The Newport 28 is the model Alan Winslow & Douglas Campbell were flying in 1918 when they became the first Americans to shoot down enemy planes in combat over this country
  • Seen here, the flag of this nation was featured prominently in 1998's soccer World Cup:
  • "La Marseillaise"
  • Technically, it's the only country in the world that you can't be from to enlist in the French Foreign Legion
  • Lavender is often included in herbes de Provence, an herb mixture from the south of this country
  • A product of about 20,000 B.C., you'll find the art seen here in this country (cave drawings)
  • Drive through the village of Mercury in the Rhone-Alpes region of this country
  • Capet,Valois,Bourbon
  • Sauterne is a sweet white wine named for a district in this country's Bordeaux region
  • In 1956 it was Hail Tunisia! which announced its independence from this European nation
  • President Jacques Chirac
  • A storm, not unusual in the Channel in February, ended a planned 1744 invasion by this country
  • The Romans had the gall to call this country Gaul
  • In the 1880s this European nation combined the 3 areas under its control into a unified Vietnam
  • Fiji,Finland,France
  • The U.S. signed its first international treaty Feb. 6, 1778 with this country
  • This country borders both Belgium & Monaco
  • Louis XII became its king & was soon known as the "Father of His People" due to legal reforms
  • Martinique
  • In 1986 this foreign country issued commemorative coins honoring the Statue of Liberty
  • Corse,Auvergne,Bretagne
  • William Shirer wrote "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" & also the collapse of this country's Third Republic
  • I'd like to go to this country, the No. 1 tourist destination, for the food; I hope they sell freedom toast
  • Belgium & Italy
  • On Aug. 27, 1789 this country's national assembly issued its declaration of the rights of man
  • In 1986 local farmers in this country protested the plan to take their land for Europe's first Disneyland
  • While most of Lake Geneva is in Switzerland, its southern shore lies in this country
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside an NYPD station.) In a 1975 movie, the NYPD sent Popeye Doyle to this country; today it sends detectives to Interpol HQ there
  • The Emile Cohl School,the University of Toulouse,the University of Provence
  • The Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 ended Spain's war with this neighbor
  • A schoolyard chant says, "I see London, I see" this country
  • President Mitterand is this country's head of state
  • The Gavotte
  • Order of St. Louis
  • The stripe pattern on Mexico's flag was inspired by this European country's tricolor
  • In 1946 the Ivory Coast was made an overseas territory of this country; in 1960 it gained its independence
  • Le Figaro
  • Frankreich
  • 1995 public sector strikes protesting premier Alain Juppe's austerity plan paralyzed this country
  • The hat seen here is worn by police in this European nation of almost 60 million:
  • Ho Chi Minh helped start Vietnam's Communist Party & in the 1920s helped start this Eur. country's Communist Party
  • Chad's colonial overlord until independence in 1960
  • Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic Party won a 7-year term as this country's president
  • You could ride in a carriage to St. Louis Cathedral, named for Louis IX, a canonized king of this country
  • Though the object seen here is listed as in the United States, it was made in this country:(Statue of Liberty)
  • Jules Cambon, this country's ambassador to the U.S., served as an intermediary to begin peace talks
  • Before his life sentence for Nazi collaboration, Philippe Petain of this country got a parade in N.Y. for heroism in WWI
  • The Percheron was first bred in & named for a district in this country
  • Mont Blanc
  • Gaul had an area roughly including Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany w. of the Rhine & this tricolor flag-waving country
  • "A Moveable Feast","Exile's Return","Swann's Way"
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Portugal,Italy,France
  • Largest country entirely in Europe
  • Charles de Gaulle,Georges Pompidou,Francois Mitterrand
  • Monaco
  • Paloma Picasso
  • 2 years after becoming king in 1413, Henry V declared war on this country
  • Arthur Rimbaud
  • By the time he was 13, Louis XV had already been king of this country for 8 years
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine was queen consort of this country before becoming queen consort of England
  • The Third Republic was this nation's government from 1870 to 1940
  • Around 13 miles long, the Verdon Gorge in this country is ranked by some as Europe's most beautiful canyon
  • During a visit to this country, he had a passionate affair, & a child, with Annette Vallon
  • Limousin & Blonde D'Aquitaine are popular breeds of cattle imported to the U.S. from this country
  • After WWII black American writers Richard Wright & Chester Himes moved to this country
  • King Robert II of this country was a good son to Hugh Capet, but his own sons turned against him
  • Sedan, Crecy
  • Teen-aged Mary, Queen of Scots, also became queen of this country, because she'd married the Dauphin
  • In 1589 a fanatical monk named Jacques Clement assassinated this country's reigning King Henry III
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, from Jacques Chirac
  • Switzerland & Spain
  • Nicknamed "The Fair", Charles IV was the last Capetian king of this country
  • Franklin lived abroad for 27 of his 84 years: 18 in Britain & 9 in this country
  • Gallophobia is not a fear of wine, but a fear of this country that produces a lot of wine
  • In English, this nation's national anthem begins, "Arise children of the fatherland, the day of glory has arrived"
  • Helping us fight bankrupted this country & sent it into internal revolution
  • Stanley Kubrick's WWI film "Paths Of Glory" is about a real incident involving this country's army
  • In 1790 William Wordsworth spent his summer vacation in this revolution-torn country
  • Fort Caroline is a memorial to this country's 16th c. attempt to establish a permanent colony in what's now Fla.
  • The gavotte
  • In 1807 Alexander I allied himself with this country; in 1812 the alliance broke & the ex-ally invaded Russia
  • In 1998 this country not only hosted the World Cup of men's soccer, it won it
  • The Bayeux Tapestry is on display in this country's Museum of Queen Matilda
  • 1992:"Indochine"
  • Longest ocean liner, the "Norway", was originally named for this country when built in 1961
  • It's the sad country where the photo was taken in 1940
  • In the 16th century numerous deaths & injuries from dueling prompted Charles IX of this country to ban it
  • The blue & red in the flags of Chad & Andorra are from this country's blue-white-red flag
  • Nobel Prize-winning novelist Anatole, or the country of his birth
  • In 1783 Franklin asked Congress to recall him from this country; he finally made it home in 1785
  • In the first century B.C., Rome conquered what is now this country, the major part of "Gallia"
  • One of the great romantic ballets, "Giselle" first danced to life in this country in 1841
  • In 1991 Edith Cresson replaced Michel Rocard, becoming this country's first female premier
  • The name of the gavotte, a dance from this country, is from Provencal for "mountain dweller"
  • This country made Laos a protectorate in the late 1800s & ruled it for over 50 years as part of Indochina
  • Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" is a defense of this European country's 1789 revolution
  • 1973:"Day for Night"
  • Solo, York killed over 20 of the enemy & captured 132 during the Argonne-Meuse Offensive in this country
  • Baccarat, as in crystal
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.) "Beauty and the Beast" takes place in & around a quiet provincial village in this country
  • The Manouche are the Gypsies mainly found in this European country
  • Gavotte
  • King Wiliam's Queen Anne's & King George's were wars Colonists fought in against this country
  • By arresting them all & seizing their property in 1307, this country's Philip IV began the suppression of the Templars
  • Of France, Italy or Russia, the one whose national anthem begins, "Arise children of the fatherland"
  • Mexico's Cinco de Mayo celebrates its victory over this country's troops at Puebla in 1862
  • Neufchatel
  • Spain,Germany,France
  • The man seen here was president of this country for the 2nd half of the decade:[video clue: Valery Giscard d'Estaing]
  • Nobel Prize winner Anatole
  • Belgium, Luxembourg & Germany all border this country
  • Edith Piaf, the Little Sparrow
  • At the age of 70 in 1776 I was one of 3 Congressional Commissioners to this nation
  • Don Prudenzio is a doctor in "Il viaggio a Reims", written for the coronation of Charles X of this country
  • In Steinbeck's satire "The Short Reign Of Pippin IV" a descendant of Charlemagne takes this country's throne
  • Royale, Joseph, and Devil's Islands make up the Safety Islands owned by this country
  • This country's fleet blocked the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, allowing an American victory at Yorktown
  • Henry IV converted from protestantism to Roman Catholicism at the end of this country's Wars of Religion
  • A 1958 uprising in Algeria threatened this European nation with civil war
  • Empire, the first major style of the 1800s, originated in this country during its First Empire, 1804-1814
  • The Age of Enlightenment in Europe is said to have ended with this country's revolution
  • Jeanne de Navarre was 13 when she became this country's queen in 1285
  • I enjoyed all kinds of sports & in 1520 had a spirited wrestling match with the king of this country
  • The Central African Republic got free from this country in 1960, but kept its language as official
  • Fiji,Finland,France
  • Louis XIV was only 4 years old when he became king of this country in 1643
  • The official dog of this nation's army, the briard was once rare because so many were lost in World War I
  • Forces of this European nation conquered Algiers in 1830, ending its use as a stronghold by pirates
  • Locked out of its regular meeting place, this country's national assembly met on a tennis court in 1789
  • Records show that Guinness sent a bottle to every member of the British forces in this country for Christmas 1939
  • Grey Goose
  • In October 1995 a coup attempt on the Comoros was put down by this country that once ruled the islands
  • Comedie Larmoyante, or "tearful comedy", was established as a genre in the 1700s in this country
  • The Hundred Years' War, 1337 to 1453, was fought between England & this country
  • This European power ruled Mali from 1895 to 1959, when Mali united with Senegal; independence came in 1960
  • In 1924 it became the first country to host the Summer & Winter Olympics in the same year
  • When it was stolen in 1792, the Hope Diamond was part of this country's crown jewels
  • The Battle of Marengo, Italy,1800
  • Forty-niners from this European country were called Keskydees, a corruption of an oft-used phrase
  • In 1453 this country's warriors won the Battle of Castillon & the Hundred Years' War was finally over
  • This country's national anthem is heard here
  • Switzerland,Italy,France
  • Brillat-Savarin
  • The Soviets chose June 1940 to take over the Baltics; world attention was elsewhere, as this country fell the same week
  • Prime Minister Edith Cresson
  • Martinique
  • The company of 100 associates was established by this country in 1627 to develop new world interests
  • Of the world's countries, this one in Europe gets the highest percentage of its power from nuclear energy
  • It's the country that tried & executed Mata Hari
  • Though it's over 5,000 miles away, Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is officially a department of this country
  • President Nicolas Sarkozy
  • In 1838 naval forces of this nation blockaded Veracruz in "The Pastry War"
  • Charles offended his Protestant subjects in 1625 when he wed the very Catholic sister of the king of this country
  • New Caledonia
  • In 1938 it became the first host country not to make it to the finals; it didn't make that mistake in 1998 (it won!)
  • The aqua-lung was invented in this country in 1943
  • New Caledonia
  • As minister to this nation, Marshall became an American hero for refusing the demands made in the XYZ Affair
  • This country's current government, the Fifth Republic, has been in effect since 1958
  • The highest speed recorded on a national rail system was the 357 mph by this country's TGV in 2007
  • A 1918 treaty said if the royal family produced no male heirs, Monaco would come under this country's rule
  • Gallophobes fear anything related to this country -- better cancel that film with Gerard Depardieu