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Château Villette - a château built in the 18th century. Parc de Sceaux - a 17th-century park located near the Château de Sceaux (Sceaux Castle). La Défense - The largest business district in Europe. Cathédrale Saint-Maclou de Pontoise - Roman Catholic cathedral located in the town of Pontoise, on the outskirts of Paris.
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 ...
François Bayrou, UDF party leader. Léon Blum, politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister. José Bové, anti-globalization activist, altermondialist. Aristide Briand. Jacques Chirac, politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, two-term French president. Georges Clemenceau.
Foucault pendulumby Léon Foucault(who also developed and named the Gyroscope) in February 1851 in the Meridian of the Paris Observatory. Ocean thermal energy conversionin 1881 by Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval(first OTEC plant in 1930 in Cuba by his student Georges Claude). [81] Radioactivityby Henri Becquerelin 1896.
Properties on the World Heritage List. A series of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps. transboundary property, shared with Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, 11 of the total 111 sites are in France. An outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages ...
Henceforth, contrary to the German definition of a nation based on objective criteria, such as race or ethnic group, which may be defined by the existence of a common language, among other criteria, the people of France is defined as all the people living in the French nation-state and willing to do so, i.e. by its citizenship.
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 ...
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.