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Departments of France. In the administrative divisions of France, the department ( French: département, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃] ⓘ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities "), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, with ...
Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was on its soil that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive on 30 May 1431. Severely damaged by the wave of bombing in 1944 , it nevertheless regained its economic dynamism in the post-war period thanks to its industrial sites and its large seaport, which today is the fifth largest in France.
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile [a] is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared ...
Napoleon launched an invasion of Russia in the summer of 1812. The resulting campaign witnessed the catastrophic retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armée. In 1813, Prussia and Austria joined Russian forces in a Sixth Coalition against France, resulting in a large coalition army defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig.
Annecy ( US: / ˌænəˈsiː, ɑːnˈsiː / AN-ə-SEE, ahn-SEE, [3] [4] French: [ansi] ⓘ; Arpitan: Èneci or Ènneci) 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.
For the former British mobile network operator the company is named after, see Orange UK. Orange S.A. ( French pronunciation: [ɔʁɑ̃ʒ] ), formerly known as France Télécom S.A. ( france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications company. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France and 59,000 people ...
Cocarde tricolore. Le drapeau de la France, drapeau tricolore bleu, blanc, rouge, également appelé « drapeau tricolore », ou simplement « drapeau français », est l' emblème et le drapeau national de la France sans interruption depuis 1830. Il a été adopté par les différents empires, monarchies et républiques françaises depuis.
