{"id":2210,"date":"2016-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2017-06-13T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T06:18:08","slug":"6-facts-about-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag\/6-facts-about-france\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Facts About France"},"content":{"rendered":"

France is the world’s most popular tourist destination<\/h3>\n

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Some 83.7 million visitors arrived in France, according to the World Tourism Organisation report published in 2014, making it the world’s most-visited country.<\/p>\n

France is the largest country in the EU<\/h3>\n

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Known as ‘the hexagon’ with an area of 551,000 sq km it’s almost a fifth of the EU’s total area, and due to its six-sided shape France is sometimes referred to as l’hexagone. About a quarter is covered by forest; only Sweden and Finland have more.<\/p>\n

Louis XIX was the king of France for just 20 minutes<\/h3>\n

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The shortest ever reign he ascended to the French throne in July 1830 after his father Charles X abdicated, and abdicated himself 20 minutes later in favour of his nephew, the Duke of Bordeaux. He shares this record with Crown Prince Lu’s Filipe, who technically became king of Portugal after his father was assassinated but died from a wound 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n

“Liberte, egalitie, fraternite”<\/h3>\n

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Meaning liberty, equality and fraternity (or brotherhood) is the national motto of France it first appeared around the time of the Revolution (1789, 1799), and was written into the constitutions of 1946 and 1958. Today you’ll see it on coins, postage stamps and government logos often alongside Marianne who symbolises the triumph of the Republic. The legal system in France is still largely based on the principles set down in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Code Civil after the revolution, in the 1800s.<\/p>\n

The French Army was the first to use camouflage<\/h3>\n

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In 1915 (World War I) the word camouflage came from the French verb to make up for the stage. Guns and vehicles were painted by artists called camofleurs.<\/p>\n

In France you can marry a dead person under French law<\/h3>\n

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In exceptional cases you can marry posthumously, as long as you can also prove that the deceased had the intention of marrying while alive and you receive permission from the French president.<\/p>\n

The Academie Francaise has aimed to preserve the French language<\/h3>\n

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Since 1634 by attempting to ban, somewhat unsuccessfully, foreign words such as blog, hashtag, parking, email and weekend. It was started by a small group of French intellects and officially recognised by Louis XIII in 1635.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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