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Strasbourg features a number of prominent parks, of which several are of cultural and historical interest: the Parc de l'Orangerie, laid out as a French garden by André le Nôtre and remodeled as an English garden on behalf of Joséphine de Beauharnais, now displaying noteworthy French gardens, a neo-classical castle and a small zoo; the Parc de la Citadelle, built around impressive remains ...
Grenoble ( / ɡrəˈnoʊbəl / grə-NOH-bəl, [4] French: [ɡʁənɔbl] ⓘ; Arpitan: Grenoblo or Grainóvol; Occitan: Graçanòbol) is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. [5] It was the capital of the Dauphiné historical province and lies where the river Drac ...
More recently (1994) the linguistic policy of the French language academies of France and Quebec has been to provide French equivalents to (mainly English) imported words, either by using existing vocabulary, extending its meaning or deriving a new word according to French morphological rules. The result is often two (or more) co-existing terms for describing the same phenomenon.
Annecy ( US: / ˌænəˈsiː, ɑːnˈsiː / AN-ə-SEE, ahn-SEE, [3] [4] French: [ansi] ⓘ) [5] is the prefecture and largest town of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed the "Pearl of the ...
L'histoire de la France commence avec les premières occupations humaines du territoire correspondant au pays actuel. Aux groupes présents depuis le Paléolithique et le Néolithique sont venues s'ajouter, à l'âge du bronze et à l'âge du fer, des vagues successives de Celtes, de Romains dès le II e siècle av. J.-C, puis au IV e siècle de peuples germains (Francs, Wisigoths, Alamans ...
Lille (/ ˈ l iː l / LEEL, French: ⓘ; Dutch: Rijsel; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille.
With the death in 1477 of Charles the Bold, France and the Habsburgs began a long process of dividing his rich Burgundian lands, leading to numerous wars. In 1532, Brittany was incorporated into the Kingdom of France. France engaged in the long Italian Wars (1494–1559), which marked the beginning of early modern France.
