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It was also the finish of Stage 5 of the 2011 Tour de France. French actress and singer Fréhel had taken her stage name from this peninsula. In 2024 an offshore wind farm was completed only 16.3 kilometers from Cap Fréhel, with sixty-two 210 meters-high wind turbines. They are visible from the cape most of the time, and their visual impact on ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in France has resulted in 39,014,130 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 168,150 [1] deaths. The virus was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux. The first five confirmed cases were all individuals who had recently arrived from ...
The Eiffel Tower seen from the Place du Trocadéro. Paris, the capital city of France, is the third most visited city in the world. [5]It has some of the world's largest and renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, but also the Musée d'Orsay which, like the nearby Musée de l'Orangerie, is mostly devoted to impressionism, and Centre Georges ...
The Conseil d'État approved Hauts-de-France as the name of the region on 28 September 2016, effective the following 30 September. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] With 6,009,976 inhabitants as of 1 January 2015 and a population density of 189 inhabitants per km 2 , it is the third most populous region in France and the second-most densely populated in metropolitan ...
Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil is a 14th-century castle built on the grounds of an earlier 12th-century castle in Ainay-le-Vieil, Cher, France.After having bought the castle from Jacques Cœur, Charles de Bigny built a pre-Renaissance Louis XII style chateaux from 1500 to 1505. [1]
A COVID-19 vaccine is intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 . Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an established body of knowledge existed about the structure and function of coronaviruses causing diseases like severe acute ...
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 [3] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [4] Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union, the ninth-most populous city in Europe and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [5]
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Hauts-de-Seine ( French pronunciation: [o d(ə) sɛn] ⓘ ; lit. ' Seine Heights ' ) is a department in the Île-de-France region of France .