{"id":29059,"date":"2022-09-26T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=29059"},"modified":"2022-10-05T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:23:10","slug":"three-things-we-didnt-know-about-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things We Didn&#8217;t Know About France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EdTravelingBoitabo.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Boitano, Curator\" width=\"282\" height=\"49\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Answers courtesy of ATOUT FRANCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that French people do for fun?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> In the South of France, the French play <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petanque.org\" target=\"_blank\">petanque<\/a>. In the winter in the alps, many families go on holiday, especially in March, to ski and snowshoe. And the French enjoy the <em>\u201cart de vivre\u201d<\/em> [art of living], relax, cook, eat, spend time with family and drink wonderful French wine!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"154\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france1.jpg\"><br>Photo courtesy: ATOUT FRANCE &#8211; France Tourism Development Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france3.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"367\"><br>Photos courtesy: ATOUT FRANCE &#8211; France Tourism Development Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s one thing the public probably does NOT know about France?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> That France is the size of Texas. France has 22 regions and 88 departments, and that a region could be compared to a state and a department to a county in the US system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france-map.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/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><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Share some aspect of France as regards to what it has contributed to the world.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><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\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information about France, click-on: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.franceguide.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france.fr\/en\">France.fr &#8211; Unexpected France by those who make it what it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answers courtesy of ATOUT FRANCE. What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that French people do for fun? ANSWER: In the South of France, the French play petanque. In the winter in the alps, many families go on holiday, especially in March, to ski and snowshoe. And the French enjoy the \u201cart de vivre\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6040,198,6039,6037,6038],"class_list":["post-29059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-things","tag-art-of-living","tag-featured","tag-petanque","tag-size-of-france","tag-x-ray"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Things We Didn&#039;t Know About France - Traveling Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-france\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Things We Didn&#039;t Know About France - Traveling Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Answers courtesy of ATOUT FRANCE. 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