Frankreich
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- An island changes country every six months.
Pheasant Island in the border river Bidasoa covers 0.68 hectares, about 200 by 40 metres. Since the 1659 Treaty of the …
- Four teenagers and a dog found 17,000-year-old art.
In September 1940, four teenagers in the Dordogne discovered the Lascaux cave after their dog had sniffed out a hole …
- Marie Antoinette never said 'Let them eat cake'.
The line, originally 'Let them eat brioche', appears in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'Confessions', written around 1765 …
- The Tour de France was invented to sell newspapers.
In 1903 the sports paper "L'Auto" was locked in rivalry with "Le Vélo". Editor Henri Desgrange organised a cycling race …
- The first cinema programme lasted about 20 minutes.
On 28 December 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière showed ten short films to a paying audience at the Grand Café in Paris …
- Which country has the most time zones? Not Russia.
France uses twelve time zones, more than any other country. The reason is its overseas territories: French Polynesia in …