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6,207 Articles of interest in France

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  • Cactus Park

    Cactus Park (8 hectares) is a commercial park with a botanical garden containing thousands of cactus and succulents, as well as a modest animal collection including yaks, goats, sheep, ducks, etc.

  • Béthune (river)

    The Béthune is a river of Normandy, France, 61 kilometres (38 mi) in length, flowing through the department of Seine-Maritime and it is a tributary of the Arques River.

  • Brucheville Airfield

    Brucheville Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Brucheville in the Basse-Normandie region of northern France.

  • Briance

    The Briance (French: la Briance) is a 57.7 km (35.9 mi) long river in the Haute-Vienne département, central France. Its source is at La Croisille-sur-Briance. It flows generally northwest.

  • Bregille (Besançon)

    Bregille is a district of the French city of Besançon, located on the right bank of the Doubs, south-east of the historic center. It has developed on the eponymous hill Bregille which culminates at 458 meters, almost 200 meters above the river level.

  • Braye (river)

    The Braye is a river of France, and a right tributary of the river Loir. Its source is about 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) west of Authon-du-Perche. The Braye is 73 kilometres (45 mi) long, and crosses Savigny-sur-Braye. Among its tributaries are the Grenne,…

  • Bras de Bronne

    The Bras de Bronne (sometimes spelled Bras de Brosne) is a small river in northern France whose 11 km course crosses the departement of the Pas-de-Calais. Its source is at the hamlet of Etreuille, near the village of Saint-Michel-sous-Bois.

  • Bouès

    The Bouès, is a right tributary of the Arros, at the eastern end of the basin of the Adour, in the Southwest of France.

  • Bouzanne

    The Bouzanne (French: la Bouzanne) is an 84.5 kilometres (52.5 mi) long river in the Indre département of central France, and is a tributary of the Creuse. Its source is in the commune of Aigurande, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) northwest of the town itse…

  • Bourtzwiller

    Bourtzwiller (French pronunciation: ​[buʁsvilɛʁ]; German: Burzweiler; Alsatian: Burtzwiller) is the most populated quarter of Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin département, Alsace, France.

  • Bourras Abbey

    Bourras Abbey (French: Abbaye de Bourras; Latin: Bonus radius) is a former Cistercian monastery in the commune of Saint-Malo-en-Donziois in Nièvre, Burgundy, France.

  • Boulevard de la Zone

    Boulevard de la Zone is a street in the 13th arrondissement of Paris named from the historical military zone. It has been planted with trees for much of its length of 515m and has an average width of 8m. It runs from the Avenue de la Porte d'Ivry to…

  • Bossuit-Kortrijk Canal

    The Canal Kortrijk-Bossuit (Dutch: Kanaal Kortrijk-Bossuit, French: Canal Bossuit-Courtrai) is a canal in westhern Belgium, which connects the city of Kortrijk to village of Bossuit.

  • Bordeaux Observatory

    The Bordeaux Observatory is an astronomical observatory affiliated with the University of Bordeaux. Built in Floirac, France in 1893 its lenses were focused between +11 and +17 degrees declination.

  • Bonnieure

    The Bonnieure is a river in the Charente département, southwestern France, left tributary to the river Charente. Its source is in Genouillac, in the east of the department. It flows into the Charente near Mansle.

  • Bonnevaux Abbey (Dauphiné)

    Bonnevaux Abbey (French: Abbaye de Bonnevaux; Latin: Bonae Valles) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lieudieu near Villeneuve-de-Marc in the Isère department of France, in the region of the Dauphiné, 25 kilometres east of Vienne and about 6 kilome…

  • Blâme

    The Blâme (French: le Blâme), is a small river in the region of Aquitaine in France. It is 6.1 kilometres (3.8 mi) long.

  • Bez (Midouze)

    The Bez (or Bès) is a right tributary to the Midouze River in the Landes, in the Southwest of France. Its name is similar to that of Baïse. The Bez has its origins in the northern Morcenx where it collects the waters of Brassenx.

  • Beuzeville Airfield

    Beuzeville Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Beuzeville-la-Bastille in the Basse-Normandie region of northern France.

  • Besançon – La Vèze Aerodrome

    Besançon – La Vèze Aerodrome (French: Aérodrome de Besançon - La Vèze) (IATA: QBQ, ICAO: LFQM) is an airport located 5.5 km (3.0 NM) southeast of Besançon in La Vèze, both communes of the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region of France.

  • Bellevaux Abbey

    Bellevaux Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1120 by Pons de Morimond, near the present-day Cirey, Haute-Saône, France. At that time it was in Franche-Comté. It was suppressed in 1790 and sold in 1791. Shortly afterwards the church was dem…

  • Bastia Cathedral

    Bastia Cathedral (Pro-cathédrale Sainte-Marie de Bastia) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral in Bastia on the island of Corsica, and a national monument of France.

  • Bassin de Naurouze

    The Bassin de Naurouze is an octagonal holding tank, created during the building of the Canal du Midi as designed and built by Pierre-Paul Riquet. It was abandoned a few years after construction of the canal because of its recurrent silting problems…

  • Barguelonne

    The Barguelonne (French: la Barguelonne) is a 61.2-kilometre (38.0 mi) long river in the Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne and Lot-et-Garonne départements, southwestern France. Its source is near Terry, a hamlet in Pern. It flows generally southwest.