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PlaceTypeAsNotedInArea
PlaceTypeAsNotedInArea
Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Region of France
Bourgogne-Franche-Comte Region of France
Brittany Region of France
Centre-Val de Loire Region of France
Clipperton Island Island
Corsica Island
French Guiana French Overseas Region
French Polynesia French Overseas Collectivity
French Southern Territories Place
Grand Est Region of France
Guadeloupe Island
Hauts-de-France Region of France
Ile-de-France Region of France
Martinique Island
Mayotte French Overseas Region
Meije Glacier and Gorge Glacier
Mont Blanc Mountain
New Caledonia French Overseas Collectivity
Normandy Region of France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region of France
Occitanie Region of France
Pays de la Loire Region of France
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region of France
Reunion French Overseas Region
Saint Barthelemy Island
Saint-Martin French Overseas Collectivity
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon French Overseas Collectivity
The Gavarnie Cirque Cirque
Wallis And Futuna Islands French Overseas Collectivity

Eat and Drink »

FoodTypeDescription
FoodTypeDescription
3 Monts Beer
Abondance Cheese
Adelscott Beer
Andouille Meat Sausage
Baguette Bread
Banon Cheese
Beaufort Cheese
Bercloux Bi Beer
Beurre d'Echire Cultured Butter Echire is handmade in a Echire, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Biere Cognac Beer
Bire de Brie Ambre Beer
Biere des Naufrageurs Miel Beer
Bleu d'Auvergne Cheese
Bleu de Gex, du Haut-Jura, or de Septmoncel Cheese
Bleu des Causses Cheese
Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage Cheese
Boeuf Bourguignon Soup
Boudin Cruor Sausage
Boudin blanc de Rethel Meat Sausage
Brie Cheese
Brie de Meaux Cheese
Brie de Melun Cheese
Brillat-Savarin Cheese
Brioche Bread Brioche is a French bread made with a high egg and butter content.
Brocciu Cara Cheese
Brouere Cheese
Cabecou Cheese
Camembert de Normandie Cheese
Cancoillotte Cheese
Cantal, Fourme de Cantal, or Cantalet Cheese
Cazelle de Saint Affrique Cheese
Cervelas d'Alsace Meat Sausage Cervelas d'Alsace are from the Alsace region of France.
Cervelas de Lyon Meat Sausage
Ch'ti Ambree Beer
Ch'ti Blonde Beer
Chabichou du Poitou Cheese
Chaource Cheese
Chevrotin Cheese
Chipolata Meat Sausage
Choucroute garnie
Comte Cheese
Conversation tart Pastry
Coreff Ambree Beer
Creme Fraiche d'Isigny Cheese
Crepe Pancake
Croissant Bread Roll Enjoy Often
Croque Monsieur Hot Sandwich
Crottin de Chavignol Cheese
Croutons
Cserkesz Kolbasz Meat Sausage
Cuvee des Jonquilles Beer
Diot Meat Sausage
Emmental de Savoie Cheese
Emmental francais est-central Cheese
Epoisses de Bourgogne Cheese
Etoile du Nord Beer
Faisselle Cheese
Foie Gras de Canard Meat Spread
Fougasse
Fourme d'Ambert Cheese
Fourme de Montbrison Cheese
Frangipane Pastry Frangipane is a traditional almond tart.
French Bread Bread
French Steak Frites Vegetable Enjoy the quintessential bistrot dish, steak and frites, at a local brasserie.
French Tarragon Aromatic
Fromage blanc Cheese
Fromage frais Cheese
Gavroche Beer
Grand Marnier Liqueur Combination of the essence of wild oranges from Haiti with premium cognac
Hommelpap Beer
Jenlain Ambr Beer
Jenlain Blonde Beer
Jenlain Noel Beer
Kasteel Cru Beer
L'Angelus Beer
La Bavaisienne Beer
La Choulette Des Sans Culottes Beer
La Choulette Framboise Beer
La Goudale Beer
Laguiole Cheese
Langres Cheese
Livarot Cheese
Lobster Thermidor
Maconnais Cheese
Madeleine de Commercy Cake Madeleine de Commercy is a small cake from Commercy in the Lorraine region of Grand Est.
Maroilles AOP Cheese
Maroilles or Marolles Cheese
Marron Glace Sweets
Meteor Pils Beer
Mimolette Vieille Cheese
Mont d'or, Vacherin du Haut-Doubs Cheese
Morbier Cheese
Morteau Sausage Meat Sausage
Munster Cheese Cheese
Neufchatel Cheese
Ossau-Iraty Cheese
Pain d'Epi Bread
Pain de Campagne
Panino con Lampredotto Hot Sandwich
Pate Meat Loaf
Pate de Campagne Meat Loaf
Pattes Rouges Crayfish Crustacean Pattes rouges are found in France.
Pelardon Cheese
Picodon Cheese
Picodon de Crest Cheese
Picodon de Dieulefit Cheese
Picodon de l'Ardeche or de la Drome Cheese
Picodon de la Drome Cheese
Picodon du Dauphine Cheese
Pietra Beer
Pont-l'eveque Cheese
Pot-au-Feu
Pouligny-Saint-Pierre Cheese
Premier Cru Beer
Raclette de Savoie Cheese
Reblochon Cheese
Rigotte de Condrieu Cheese
Rocamadour Cheese
Roquefort Cheese
Rosette de Lyon Meat Sausage
Sabodet Offal Sausage
Saint-Felicien Cheese
Saint-Marcellin Cheese
Saint-Nectaire Cheese
Sainte-Maure de Touraine Cheese
Salers Cheese
Saucisson Meat Sausage
Saucisson de Lyon Meat Sausage
Selles-sur-Cher Cheese
Tome des Bauges Cheese
Tomme Cheese Cheese
Tomme de Savoie Cheese
Tomme des Pyrenees Cheese
Trou du Cru Cheese
Valencay Cheese



Geography »

Physiographic FeaturesTypeAsNotedIn
Aiguille de Dibona Mountain
Aiguille Vert Mountain
Alps Mountain System
Annecy Lake Lake
Bossons Glacier Glacier
Chaine des Puys Mountain Range
Chesery Lake Lake
Doubs Gorge Canyon, Gorge
English Channel Marginal Sea
Lac du Bourget Lake
Mont Blanc Mountain
Monte Perdido
Mount Ventoux Mountain
Pyrenees Mountain Range
The Gavarnie Cirque Cirque

Information »

Location

Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain - The World Factbook

Data »

Particulars for France:
Locale Type Nation

Data
Demonym: French
Corruption Perceptions Index - 2014, Transparency International: 26


Map »

Metropolitan France

Metropolitan France

History »

France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. It plays an influential global role as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the G-8, the G-20, the EU and other multilateral organizations. France rejoined NATO's integrated military command structure in 2009, reversing de Gaulle's 1966 decision to take French forces out of NATO. Since 1958, it has constructed a hybrid presidential-parliamentary governing system resistant to the instabilities experienced in earlier, more purely parliamentary administrations. In recent decades, its reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of a common currency, the euro, in January 1999. In the early 21st century, five French overseas entities - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion - became French regions and were made part of France proper. - The World Factbook

Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
A Fight with a Cannon (Short Story) Short Story Victor Hugo
A Motor-Flight Through France Book
Edith Wharton
A Passion in the Desert (Short Story) Short Story Honore de Balzac
A Small Boy and Others Book
Henry James
A Void Book Georges Perec
Agains the Grain Book Joris-Karl Huysmans
Ancient Sorceries (short story) Short Story
Algernon Blackwood He was on the way home when it happened, crossing northern France from some mountain trip or other where he buried himself solitary-wise every summer.
Aphrodite: Desperate Mission Book
Jack Olsen
Bouvard and Pecuchet Book Gustave Flaubert
Candide Book Voltaire
Casino Royale (book) Novel Ian Fleming Set in fictional Royale-les-Eaux
Claudine's House Book Colette
Death Sentence Book Maurice Blanchot
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Constitutional document Marquis de Lafayette
Delta of Venus (book) Short Story Collection Anais Nin
Down There Book Joris-Karl Huysmans
Drunkard Book Emile Zola
Elementary Particles Book Michel Houellebecq
Euegnie Grandet Novel Honore de Balzac
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort Book
Edith Wharton
Flaubert's Parrot (book) Novel Julian Barnes
Froth on the Daydream Book Boris Vian
Gargantua and Pantagruel Book Francois Rabelais
How the Brigadier Won His Medal (Short Story) Short Story
Arthur Conan Doyle
In Search of Lost Time (book) Book Marcel Proust
Jacques the Fatalist Book Denis Diderot
Jealousy Book Alain Robbe-Grillet
Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint Book
Donald Spoto
Journey to the End of the Night Book Louis Ferdinand Celine
Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue Novel Marquis de Sade
La Bete Humaine Book Emile Zola
Le Dernier Combat (film) Film Luc Besson
Les Enfants Terribles (book) Novel Jean Cocteau
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Book Cholderlos De Laclos
Les Miserables (book) Makrystoria Victor Hugo
Life: A User's Manual Book Georges Perec
Locus Solus Book Raymond Roussel
Lost Illusions Novel Honore de Balzac
Madame Bovary (book) Novel Gustave Flaubert
Maldoror Book Comte de Lautreamont
Man's Fate Book Andre Malraux
Nadja Novel Andre Breton
Nana (book) Book Emile Zola
Nausea Book Jean-Paul Sartre
Of Human Bondage Book W Somerset Maugham
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II Book Ben Macintyre Setting
Our Lady's Juggler (Short Story) Short Story Anatole France
Platform Book Michel Houellebecq
Princesse de Cleves Novel Madame de La Fayette
Rameau's Nephew Book Denis Diderot
Retreat Without Song Book Shahan Shahnoor
Sentimental Education (book) Book Gustave Flaubert
Story of the Eye Book Georges Bataille
Strait is the gate Book Andre Gide
The 120 days of Sodom Novel Marquis de Sade
The Abbot C Book Georges Bataille
The Bells of Basel (book) Novel Louis Aragon
The Blue of Noon Book Georges Bataille
The Count of Monte-Cristo (book) Makrystoria Alexandre Dumas Auguste Maquet
The Counterfeiters Book Andre Gide
The Devil in the Flesh Book Raymond Radiguet
The Devil's Pool Book Georges Sand
The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One Book
Ben Macintyre Setting
The Enormous Room Book E E Cummings Setting
The Fruits of the Earth Book Andre Gide
The Gleaners and I Film Agnes Varda Gleaners was filmed in France, including Beauce, Jura, Provence, the Pyrenees and in the suburbs of Paris
The Immoralist Book Andre Gide
The Legend of St Julian the Hospitaller (Short Story) Short Story Gustave Flaubert
The Little Prince Mezzobula Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Mandarins Book Simone de Beauvoir
The Marriage of the Brigadier (Short Story) Short Story
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mystery of the Yellow Room Book Gaston Leroux "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" in the Chateau du Glandier.
The Nun Book Denis Diderot
The Opposing Shore Book Julien Gracq
The Premature Burial (short story) Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe Filled with despair, the lover journeys from the capital to the remote province in which the village lies, with the romantic purpose of disinterring the corpse, and possessing himself of its luxuriant tresses.
The Ravishing of Lol Stein Book Marguerite Duras
The Razor's Edge Book W Somerset Maugham
The Story of O Book Pauline Reage
The Three Musketeers Book Alexandre Dumas Auguste Maquet Set in France, 1625
The Wall (Short Story) Short Story Jean-Paul Sartre
Therese Raquin Book Emile Zola
Things Book Georges Perec
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire (book) Novel
Arthur Conan Doyle
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad Novel Henri Barbusse
Under Satan's Sun Book Georges Bernanos
Viper's Tangle Book Francois Mauriac
W, or the Memory of Childhood Book Georges Perec
Whatever Book Michel Houellebecq

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