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French Culture

Subject : culture
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1. On What day did the Storming of the Bastille prison occur?






2. What is le Jura






3. Who was the leading man in the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac?






4. What is a significant mineral of France






5. Which king built le ch






6. During Which period were les ch






7. What did Ren






8. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux






9. What is the difference between un ch






10. Which Republic is France under today?






11. Who invented the process of pasteurization?






12. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?






13. How do you most often eat oysters in France?






14. What is un mille-feuilles?






15. What did Louis Braille create in 1824?






16. What caused the French Revolution of 1789?






17. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?






18. What is une religieuse?






19. What is la mairie?






20. The French invented the coffee pot How many years ago?






21. French children must attend school until What age?






22. Who is Ast






23. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?






24. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?






25. When were the boundaries of modern France established?






26. Which musicians were prominent the early 19th century?






27. What is tutoiement?






28. By 1942 Who had taken control over the entire country of France?






29. Who wrote the absurdist plays Rhinoceros and La cantatrice chauve (the bald soprano)?






30. What is un bateau-mouche?






31. At dinner time - What do French families do at the table?






32. What is the total population of France?






33. Who brought order back to France?






34. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today






35. What is the SNCF?






36. What is found on the north side of the Seine River - called the right bank






37. Who designed the glass pyramid built in 1989 in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris?






38. How does France's economy compare to the rest of the world?






39. What is Chartres famous for






40. Where were the kings of France crowned for hundreds of years






41. Who sculpted Le Penseur?






42. In France - do windows usually swing inwards or outwards?






43. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France






44. When would one eat a go






45. Which museum was originated by Louis XIV?






46. when was the first female prime minister - Edith Cresson - appointed?






47. Name two delicacies of France?






48. What are crudit






49. What did Paul Verlaine write?






50. Which king of France was known as the Sun King?







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