{"id":5025,"date":"2026-06-04T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:20:19","slug":"france-people-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/france-people-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"France People Don&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-08be9f9a2f56508bd3b09d9533aa3b69 wp-block-paragraph\">1 What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that French people do for fun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> In the South of France, the French play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petanque.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petanque<\/a>. In the winter in the alps, many families go on holiday, especially in March, to ski and snowshoe. 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France has 22 regions and 88 departments, and that a region could be compared to a state and a department to a county in our US system.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france-map.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france2.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"367\"><br>Photos courtesy: ATOUT FRANCE &#8211; France Tourism Development Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5914b59ed8c459f7916829b9ee8f21ca wp-block-paragraph\">3 Share some aspect of France as regards to what it has contributed to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> The X- ray, the moving pictures, and hot air balloons were all invented in France by French citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that French people do for fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2331,29,1106,2330,985,266,1628],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-three-things-about","tag-compare-texas-and-france","tag-featured","tag-paris","tag-petanque","tag-texas","tag-wine","tag-x-ray"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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