France

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France

• By Amanda and Samantha

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FLAG AND GEOGRAPHY

• France is about 80 the size of Texas. In the
  Alps near the Italian and Swiss borders is
  western Europe's highest pointMont Blanc (15,781
  ft 4,810 m). The forest-covered Vosges Mountains
  are in the northeast, and the Pyrénées are along
  the Spanish border. Except for extreme northern
  France, the country may be described as four
  river basins and a plateau.

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POPULATION AND LARGEST CITY
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Economy
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GOVERNMENT
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MAP AND TRANSPORTATION

• Transportation Railways total 31,939 km
  (31,940 km are operated by French National
  Railways (SNCF) 14,176 km of SNCF routes are
  electrified and 12,132 km are double- or
  multiple-tracked)

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Language,ethnicity,and Religion
Language French
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HISTORY

• The Treaty of Verdun (843) divided the
  territories corresponding roughly to France,
  Germany, and Italy among the three grandsons of
  Charlemagne. Charles the Bald inherited Francia
  Occidentalis, which became an increasingly
  feudalized kingdom.

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HISTORY

• For 350 years, an unbroken Capetian line added to
  its domain and consolidated royal authority until
  the accession in 1328 of Philip VI, first of the
  Valois line. France was then the most powerful
  nation in Europe, with a population of 15
  million.

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HISTORY

• After a series of costly foreign wars that
  weakened the government, the French Revolution
  plunged France into a bloodbath beginning in 1789
  with the establishment of the First Republic and
  ending with a new authoritarianism under Napoléon
  Bonaparte, who had successfully defended the
  infant republic from foreign attack 1804