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European beaver. Red squirrel. Alpine marmot. Garden dormouse. European water vole. Common vole. Yellow-necked mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
Media in category "Featured pictures of France". The following 195 files are in this category, out of 195 total. 1783 balloonj.jpg 2,717 × 3,701; 13.66 MB. 2018 - Château fort de Lourdes.jpg 13,250 × 3,540; 19.42 MB. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard - Self-Portrait with Two Pupils - The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg 4,523 × 6,479; 5.62 MB.
2,244 km2 (866 sq mi) 20 February 1989. Guiana Amazonian Park. (Parc amazonien de Guyane) French Guiana (overseas department) 20,236 km2 (7,813 sq mi) 13,615 km2 (5,257 sq mi) 27 February 2007. Mercantour National Park.
The culture of Francehas been shaped by geography, by historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France, and in particular Paris, has played an important role as a center of high culturesince the 17th century and from the 19th century on, worldwide. From the late 19th century, France has also played an important role in ...
France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe.Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
In over 4.5 billion years of Earth’s existence and millions of years of human evolution, we’ve seen civilizations rise and fall, survived wars and famines, and made discoveries that have ...
Modern entrance to the Lascaux cave. On 12 September 1940, the entrance to the Lascaux Cave was discovered on the La Rochefoucauld-Montbel lands by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, investigated a hole left by an uprooted tree (Ravidat would embellish the story in later retellings, saying Robot had fallen into the cave.) [8] [9] Ravidat returned to the scene with three friends ...
Lot Department, Midi-Pyrénées, France. Coordinates. 44°30′27″N 1°38′40″E / 44.5074288°N 1.6443131°E / 44.5074288; 1.6443131. Pech Merle is a French hillside cave at Cabrerets, in the Lot département of the Occitania region, about 32 kilometres (19.88 miles) east of Cahors, by road. It is one of the few prehistoric ...