Random Facts about France

So this week I'm blogging about random facts about France! Hopefully you enjoy them!

#1- In every town in France there is a Victor Hugo. Who was Victor Hugo? Basically he was a famous French writer who wrote all kinds of things.

#2- You have herd of Wilber the pig from Charlotte's Web but have you ever heard of Napoleon? ("The french Emperor? Napoleon Bonaparte?" ) In France it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon! Weird.

#3- The French Word Salute means both Hello and Goodbye. (Mrs. Congeniality: so if your on the phone with somebody and they won't stop talking and you say, okay aloha (in our case Salute) won't they just start over again?) did i get a laugh? No, "well at least she thinks I'm funny."

#4- "Yo, ho, haul together, hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never say we die." We knew people have been hung for committing a crime but a pig? What do these French people have with pigs! Yes in 1386 a pig was hung for being accused of committing a murder.

#5- "Let them eat cake!" Most of you are probably also thinking somewhere along he lines of 'Off with their heads!" Right? Well the first of the two phrases is falsely associated with Marie Antoinette. She never actually did say that seeing as the phrase was created 10 years before her birth.

#6- "Mennonite Girls Can Cook" "For the Joy of Cooking" are just two cooks books. There are two cook books published a day in France.

#7- "Here comes the Bride all dressed in white!" 1499 wearing a white wedding dress became a french tradition.

#8- The statue of Liberty was actually made in France.

 

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Frence Journalist being released

A group in Colombia that is called Farc has decided to release a France journalist that was captured two weeks ago. Romeo Langlois was kidnapped by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia two weeks ago. The date of his release is unknown. Romeo is a reporter for France 24, and while he was in Columbia he was caught in a firefight while the troops carried out an anti-drug raid in Caqueta. Caqueta is known to be a place of refuge for Columbia rebels.  Senator Piedad Cordoba will be the one to negotiate the date of release for the young journalist. France has high hopes that he will return in good condition. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/colombia/9263749/Farc-agrees-to-release-kidnapped-French-journalist.html

France's Histroy

Sorry for not posting this past week! Today I will be posting about France’s history pacifically where is come from and why it is called France.

In the olden days France used to be part of a Celtic region called Gaul or Gallia. In 600 B.C the people of this nation moved up the Rhine Valley and made a settlement which is known today as Marseille. Germany conquered it in the 5^th century when the Roman Empire fell. Four centuries later it became an independent country.

Said to be a place in Marseille.

France in Latin means “country of Franks”. Franks we what used to be France’s currency before it switched over to the Euro as with all the other countries in Europe.

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