Learn about France ► Interesting Facts about French Life

Watch this video to learn all about France - the most visit country in the world! In this video, you will learn how France got its name, the capital city and interesting facts about its culture.

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Have you visited France? Comment below 🙂

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I love France very much! I'm currently learning French rn, and hopefully I will visit it one day!!!

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Other facts about France -
1) The sun never sets on French territories because few people know it but France is the 5th country in the world by its total area because France has the 2nd world maritime domain behind the USA. Thus French Polynesia with Tahiti is as vast as the only European continent.France has its longest land border in French Guiana with Brazil and its longest maritime border with Australia in Adelie Land in the South Pole.France is present on all continents and in all oceans, which allows it to have resources of rare metals at the bottom of the seas and oceans and to have military bases for its nuclear submarines because France is the 3rd power in number of nuclear warheads behind the USA and Russia .France was thanks to its temperate climate a rich country agriculturally able to feed its population so that the French emigrate little and this resulted in France being the most populous country in the Western world (France at the beginning of the 19th century has more inhabitants than Russia). The importance of the French population had important consequences since France has long been able to stand alone in wars against coalitions of several European states in history as will be the case under the reign of Louis XIV, during the revolutionary wars and under Napoleon Bonaparte, so that under the reign of King Louis XIV had become the 1st power of the western world. But from 1815, his youth having been decimated by more than 20 years of revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, France enters a demographic winter, so that it is no longer able as in the past to defeat alone enemy coalitions of countries that are becoming more populated than it like the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia.
2)-Automobile, photography and cinema are among the best-known French inventions. Thus in 1884, was organized the first automobile race in history between Paris and Rouen . The first photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, while on February 13, 1895, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière gave the Grand Café in Paris the first film screening showing the workers leaving their factory in Lyon.
3) The French National Day on July 14 since 1879 does not celebrate the capture on July 14, 1789 by the Parisian people of the Bastille fortress and royal prison but the festival of the federation of July 14, 1790 an assembly taking place at the field of March present place of the Tower Eiffel in the presence of the Parisian people, of the royal family, religious and military authorities intended to celebrate national reconciliation symbolically one year after the storming of the Bastille. This day of July 14, 1790 was chosen because unlike July 14, 1789, French blood had not flowed. The term Bastille Day is therefore inaccurate. Moreover, 14 July 1789 did not bring about the fall of the French royalty, which intervened on 10 August 1792 when the Parisian people stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris or resided the royal family, and on 21 September 1792 when the vote was taken by the assembly of deputies the fall of King Louis XVI and the proclamation of the 1st Republic.
4) The Eiffel Tower, built in 1889 during the Paris World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, was for a long time the tallest building in the world before being dethroned by the Empire State Building in New York.
But the Eiffel Tower, which had become a symbol of Paris, was hated by the majority of Parisians, because according to them it made the landscape look ugly and the Eiffel Tower was initially to be destroyed after the end of the 1889 World’s Fair.
The famous French writer Guy de Maupassant regularly had lunch at the restaurant on the 1st floor of the Eiffel Tower because it was, according to him, the only place in Paris where she was not seen!
The Eiffel Tower will be saved by the installation of a radio antenna that will give it its utilitarian character.
5)Gustave Eiffel builder of the Eiffel Tower also designed the metal frame of the Statue of Liberty made by the sculptor Bartholdi and offered in 1876 by the French Republic in the United States to celebrate the centenary of their independence, even though the statue will only be delivered to America and installed in New York in 1886.In reality, the Statue of Liberty was not intended to be delivered to the United States because it had been commissioned by a friend of Bartholdi, Ferdinand de Lesseps who had built the Suez Canal in Egypt inaugurated on November 17, 1869 connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, so that the statue was installed at the entrance of the Suez Canal . But the project aborted after the fall of Emperor Napoleon III in 1870 which Ferdinand de Lesseps was close to because cousin of the empress Eugenie de Montijo but Bartholdi managed to recycle his project to the United States. There is another smaller Statue of Liberty in Paris.
6) One of the consequences of the 1st World War of 1914-1918 was the complete disappearance of French villages destroyed because located on the place of the fighting. Thus 9 French villages were destroyed during the Battle of Verdun in 1916 and have obtained to see their name preserved so that there are thus ghost villages in France without inhabitants.The soil of the Verdun region retains the traces of the battlefield more than a century after with contaminated soil, huge craters of shells . Military specialists expose that the territory of Verdun received during the 10 months of the battle in terms of explosive charges the equivalent of 7 times the load of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima
7)The bread baguette factor of social peace. After the engineer Benvegü, who was building the Paris metro for the Paris World’s Fair in 1900, noticed the decrease in knife fights between the workers to whom he offered for lunch a baguette-shaped bread instead of the traditional loaf of bread, the French government decided to generalize the baguette of bread that could be cut with only one hand and no longer a knife like a loaf of bread, so that it was useless for the workers to take with them their knife to eat, This reduced the number of fights where people killed or injured themselves with a knife.
8)The President of the French Republic in title also becomes a Prince since he receives at investiture the title of Prince of the Principality of Andorra, a state located in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, as a survival of the time when the kings of France were also kings of Navarre an ancient state which was also located between France and the Pyrenees and which will now be shared between France and Spain which has preserved the historic capital of Navarre, Pamplona is famous for its bull shedding in the streets while France has preserved the northern part of this kingdom which became the departments of the Atlantic Pyrenees and the High Pyrenees.France also has two associated states, the Principality of Andorra and the Principality of Monaco, whose prime minister is chosen by the French government and the police and justice provided by officials of the French state.
9) In France, the law requires restaurants to provide bread and water free of charge while since a law of the Vichy government during the Second World War, Restaurants are required to provide a full menu at lunch break at a low price to allow workers to have lunch at a modest price. Hence the difference in prices between menus in restaurants at noon and in the evening and between working weekdays and holidays or weekends.
10) Every six months both France and Spain see their area increase or decrease. Indeed, since the treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, the two states share by a condo the sovereignty on the island of Pheasants located in the middle of the river Bidassoa which constitutes the border between France and Spain. Sovereignty has since alternated every six months: from 1 August to 31 January for France, from 1 February to 31 July for Spain. Surviving the treaty, the French naval officer in charge of the island’s administration received the title of vice-roi although royalty was abolished in France.

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Do you appreciate your viewers because i love your voice

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Hiiii I’ve noticed that you’ve commented on every comment and I hope you will on this one aswell! Can u make a video on the basic things you need to know about France something like its capitals or something

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My 2 paternal uncal live in Paris..I will make visit to France..v r kids fun

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Well the Eiffel Tower isn't really that big cuz world tallest building is Burj Khalifa. Up to 828 meters.
Btw learning French too

Edit: I have no hate to France just speaking facts.