France and its culture

• France, officially French Republic, is a founding member state of the European Union and is the largest one by area.. • France is the most visited country in the world • Prime Mini

• France, officially French

Republic, is a founding member state of the European Union and

is the largest one by area

• France possesses the fifth

largest economy by nominal GDP, seventh largest econnomy

by purchasing power parity.

• France is the most visited

country in the world

• Prime Minister: Francois Fillon

• President: Nicolas Sarkozy

• Independence Day: 14/7

• Population: 65.4 milions people

France is the 20 th most populous

• Regions:

22 administrative regions, which are then divided into departments

• Capital: Paris

• Other large cities:

Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg, Bordeaux,…

Total Area: 211,209 sq mi (547,030 sq km)

Marianne is a symbol of French Republic She

is an iconic image of freedom and Republic

• Language

 French is the third-largest of the Romance languages in terms of the number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese

 French is spoken in France , Canada , Switzerland ,

Monaco, Niger , Vietnam , Central African Republic,

Madagascar and other countries.

 40% to 50% of English vocabulary comes from French

• Law:

 France uses a civil legal system

 As Guy Canivet wrote about the management of prisons:

“Freedom is the rule, and its restriction is the exception; any restriction of Freedom must be provided for by Law and must follow the principles of necessity and proportionality”

 French law is divided into two principal areas:

Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, and dramatist and the most

“Each man should frame life

so that at some future hour

meet”

—Victor Hugo

He was a famous French writer The works of his famous

Musketeers guy, Earl Monte Cristo

French writer is actually the biggest first half of 19th century master of realistic fiction He is the author of the novel game away massive attack (La Comedie humaine).

 He was born on October

16th, 1961, in France

 His first novel is If Only

it Were True

 Best-seller :

• Will you be There?, 2001

• Seven Days for an Eternity,

2003

• In Another Life, 2004

• Finding You…

Eiffel Tower is an iron structure on the park

worked by Gustave Eiffel and his colleagues built the World Exhibition in 1889

It’s 325 meters in high.

Eiffel Tower is the world's

maintaining this position

"capital light"

Louvre is a museum of art and history located

in District 1, Paris , France Is located in the

historic center city, the river Seine , the Louvre

was originally a fortress by King Philippe Auguste built in 1190

Versailles castle is located in the western city of Paris at Versailles, Versailles castle is a symbol of supreme power of the feudal dynasties France Versailles is one of the largest and most beautiful castles in Europe and the world, in 1979 it was UNESCO on the World Heritage List.

Centre Pompidou is a cultural center and museum

Georges-located in a large district 4 Beaubourg, Paris , France Centre Pompidou today

welcomed about 5.3 million visitors each year, the third largest tourist attraction in Paris after the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower

France is a country with exquisite cuisine and rich The French very seriously and gourmet food French cuisine by famous wine, cheese and other dishes such as snails or fat foie gras Champagne is a province located in the northeast of France , and is well known for its

• Paris is still very own coffee and famous coffee

shops, coffee in this diversity of types and forms

of service

• French chocolate is one of the world’s greatest

chocolate such as Michel Cluizel, Valrhona, Pralus,

…

• French music is a mixture of a variety of

music styles: a bit of Latin America, Africa

and Asian music

• French Opera is also well known The first

opera is thought to be "Akébar roi du Mogol", with Jean-Baptiste Lully

French cinema is art and film industry of France, the oldest cinema in the world

France and Italy are the two leading nations

of the Academy Award for Best Foreign

Language Film, ahead of other major cinema.

Paris is often

fashion capital of the

world Here the focus

designer, the fashion

show important and

high-fashion shops.

Paris Fashion Week

• The French have a long tradition and skills in

the art of making perfumes

• Some Perfume manufacturers are Chanel,

Lancome, Dior Parfums…

The Bastille was a prison in Paris , known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine the

storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789

The Cannes Film Festival (is the world's most prestigious film festival and is held in May each year in Cannes, in the South

of France

The Roland Garros stadium plays host to the second grand Slam tennis tournament that takes place in Paris at the end of May every year

The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries

Nice city in the south of France , receives more than 45,000 visitors each year, between

musicians and spectators