France for dummies, 4th edition by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Cheryl A. Pientka PDF

By Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Cheryl A. Pientka

ISBN-10: 0470085819

ISBN-13: 9780470085813

The French have mastered the artwork of dwelling good. With this advisor, you’ll grasp the artwork of touring well—seeing what you must see, doing what you must do, and having fun with each mile and each minute. In France, there are such a lot of attractions to work out and a lot incredible nutrients and wine to have fun with that you could be need to decide and select. This pleasant consultant is helping you intend forward with information on: * 4 nice itineraries for exploring France and 5 daytrips from Paris * Provence, with the recognized cities of Avignon, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence, and the old fashioned village of St-Rémy * The fabled French Riviera, together with Cannes, great, and Monaco * The D-day shorelines at Normandy * cycling within the geographical region, hiking to the heights of Mont-St-Michel, traveling prestigious vineyards, and extra * motels, starting from one outfitted as a convent within the early 18th century to an Italianate rose-pink villa from 1881 to a palatial hideaway in stylish St. Tropez * Museums, starting from Musée de Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris to Musée Picasso in Antibes and origin Maeght in St-Paul-de-Vence, a contemporary paintings Mecca * awesome castles, palaces, church buildings, and cathedrals, together with Cathédrale de Notre-Dame in Paris, certainly one of Western civilization’s maximum edifices * buying the newest models within the stylish boutiques of Paris, for hand-painted pottery in Quimper, for domestic adorning goods and antiques in St-Rémy-de-Provence, for end result, greens, and sector specialties on the recognized fruit and vegetable marketplace in Aix-en-Provence, and extra like all For Dummies trip consultant, France For Dummies, 4th version, contains: * Down-to-earth trip-planning suggestion * What you shouldn’t pass over — and what you could bypass * the simplest inns and eating places for each funds * convenient Post-it® Flags to mark your favourite pages even if your type is grabbing a chunk at a sidewalk café or savoring five-star haute cuisine…taking within the significant points of interest or exploring the French nation-state, with this consultant, you’ll have a bon voyage!

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In May 1968, university students joined with workers in uprisings that paralyzed Paris, spread through the country, and led to de Gaulle’s resignation in 1969. Georges Pompidou became president in 1969, followed by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1974. In 1981, the left came to power with the election of François Mitterrand, the first Socialist president since World War II. Mitterrand served two terms and bestowed on Paris famous grands projets such as the Louvre pyramid, Opéra Bastille, and Grand Arche de la Défense.

See Chapter 12. 16 Part I: Introducing France ߜ Sainte-Chapelle: In the 4th arrondissement of Paris, this church at Palais de Justice is one of the oldest, most beautiful, and oddest in the world. It was constructed in 1246 for the express purpose of housing the relics of the Crucifixion, which had been sent from Constantinople. The relics later were transferred to Notre-Dame. What keeps the chapel on the tourist map are its 15 stained-glass windows, among the greatest ever created. They flood the interior with colored light — deep blue, ruby red, and dark green — and depict more than 1,000 scenes from the Bible.

Louis XV’s grandson, Louis XVI (1774–91), married Marie Antoinette of Austria in 1770, and their ostentatious manners proved to be the downfall of the French monarchy. From 1776 to 1783, following the maxim “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” France supported the North American colonists’ quest for independence from England. On June 20, 1789, representatives of the National Assembly met in the Versailles tennis court and swore “The Tennis Court Oath” to put together a Constitution for France with a legislative government.

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