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6,207 Articles of interest in France

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  • Bauges

    The Bauges Mountains (Massif des Bauges) is a mountain range in eastern France, stretching from the city of Annecy to the city of Chambéry, which is part of the French Prealps.

  • Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf

    The Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf was an engagement fought off the Îles Saint-Marcouf near the Cotentin peninsula on the Normandy coast of France in May 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1795 a British garrison was placed on the islan…

  • Battle of Bergerac

    The Battle of Bergerac was fought in August 1345. An Anglo-Gascon Army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac, leading to the loss of the t…

  • Auxerre Cathedral

    Auxerre Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre) located in Auxerre, Burgundy, France, dedicated to St Stephen, is known for its expansive stained glass windows.

  • Arras Memorial

    The Arras Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located in the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery, in the western part of the town of Arras.

  • Argentine (Paris Métro)

    Argentine (French pronunciation: ​[aʁʒɑ̃tin]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the boundary between the 16th and the 17th arrondissements of Paris in the western area of the city.

  • Arc (Provence)

    The Arc is an 83-kilometre (52 mi) long river in the south of France. It arises at an elevation of 470 metres (1,540 ft), close to the village of Pourcieux.

  • Gare d'Antony

    Antony is a station of the Paris RER. It is named after the city of Antony, Hauts-de-Seine where the station is located. The station allows the transfer from the RER B to Orlyval, a small automatic light rail line which runs a shuttle service to Orl…

  • Ancre

    The Ancre is a river of Picardy, France. Rising at Miraumont, a hamlet near the town of Albert, it flows into the Somme at Corbie.

  • Ambérieu-en-Bugey Air Base

    Ambérieu-en-Bugey Air Base (French: Base aérienne 278 Ambérieu-en-Bugey) (ICAO: LFXA) is a front-line French Air Force (French: Armée de l'Air or ALA) base located approximately 5 km north-northwest of Ambérieu-en-Bugey, in the Ain department of the…

  • Allier (river)

    The Allier (Occitan: Alèir) is a river in central France, and is the left tributary to the Loire River. Its source is in the Massif Central, in the Lozère département, east of Mende. It flows generally north.

  • Ajaccio Cathedral

    Ajaccio Cathedral, officially the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio and also known as the Cathedral of the Assuption of Saint Mary, (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Ajaccio; Cathédrale de l'Assomption de Sainte-Mari…

  • Aber Wrac'h

    The Aber Wrac'h is a small village and port located on the Wrac'h river in the commune of Landéda in the department of Finistère in France, located in Brittany.

  • Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin)

    In 1862 during Haussmann's modernization of Paris the Théâtre de la Gaîté of the boulevard du Temple was relocated to the rue Papin across from the Square des Arts et Métiers. The new theatre, built in an Italian style to designs of the architects J…

  • Îlots des Apôtres

    The Îlots des Apôtres or Îles des Apôtres (English: Apostle Islets or Islands) are a group of small and uninhabited rocky islands in the north-western part of the Crozet Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Île aux Cocho…

  • Évreux Cathedral

    The Cathedral of Our Lady of Évreux (Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Évreux) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, in Évreux, Normandy.

  • Étang de Montady

    The Étang de Montady, the "pond of Montady", is a drained "lagoon" or more accurately a former freshwater wetland that is popularly said to have been "constructed by the Visigoths" but was realised by monks during the second half of the 13th centu…

  • Épinal – Mirecourt Airport

    Épinal – Mirecourt Airport or Aéroport d'Épinal - Mirecourt (IATA: EPL, ICAO: LFSG) is an airport located in Juvaincourt, 31 km northwest of Épinal and 6 km northwest of Mirecourt, all communes of the Vosges département in the Lorraine région of Fra…

  • École Estienne

    L’école Estienne is the traditional name of the l’École supérieure des arts et industries graphiques (ESAIG) (Graduate School of Arts and Printing Industry). It is located at 18, Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, not far…

  • Vologne

    The Vologne is a river of the Vosges department in France. It is tributary of the Moselle River. Its source is in the Vosges Mountains, on the northwestern slope of the Hohneck.

  • Villa Cavrois

    Villa Cavrois in Croix is a large mansion built in 1932, for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix - he was working in the textile industry - by Parisian architect Robert Mallet-Stevens.