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France is a country in Western Europe.
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- The creation of Modern France through expansion goes back to the establishment of a small kingdom in the area around Paris in the late tenth century and was not completed until the incorporation of Nice and Savoy in 1860. The existing “hexagon” was the result of a long series of wars and conquests involving the triumph of French language and culture over what once were autonomous and culturally distinctive communities. The assimilation of Gascons, Savoyards, Occitans, Basques, and others helped to sustain the myth that French overseas expansionism in the nineteenth century, especially to North and West Africa, was a continuation of the same assmilationist project.
- And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.
- That sweet enemy, France.
- "They order," said I, "this matter better in France."
- Toute ma vie, je me suis fait une certaine idée de la France.
- Translated: "All my life I have had a certain idea of France".
- Charles de Gaulle, opening sentence of his Mémoires de guerre.
- La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.
- Translated: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war".
- Charles de Gaulle, Proclamation, June 18 1940.
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- France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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- "Everyone has two countries, his or her own-- and France."
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