TIL of a French soldier who was taken as a POW and fed only potatoes during his captivity, and survived. Feeling like he should have died, he made it his lifeβs mission to convince the world of the nutritional value of potatoes, and his tomb in France is decorated with potatoes as a tribute.
atlasobscura.com/places/gβ¦
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My great grandfather's British Army issue pocket watch along with the German bullet that it stopped in France 1914.
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American deserters being publicly humiliated in Florient, France on November 5, 1918. During WWI, 2,657 U.S. servicemen were convicted of desertion, with 24 being sentenced to death; all of the condemned were instead commuted to prison terms by President Woodrow Wilson. [800 x 749]
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Does anyone else sometimes forget that France has nukes?
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A friend was hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc in France in 2017 when he came across a google street view hiker, and took a picture of him. Friend later discovered himself on google earth street view.
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The first direct ferry from Ireland arrived in France
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France burns as the first phase of a deeply authoritarian new law is passed in the lower courts. The law will make it illegal for citizens to film police at certain times and give the police the power to decide on a whim who is and isn't a reporter.
v.redd.it/uh65m6lq03261
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A Continent Where the Dead Are Not Counted - All 54 African countries put together have registered fewer Covid deaths than France. That doesnβt mean people arenβt dying from the virus.
nytimes.com/2021/01/02/woβ¦
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[France Football] Lukaku: "For the first three months at Inter, Conte did nothing but train me with my back to the goal. At each training, he would put Ranocchia (1.95 meters, 82 kg) behind me and asked him to go hard against me. Every time I lost the ball, we had to start the drill again."
twitter.com/FNerazzurra19β¦
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Rouen Cathedral (Normandy, France) light show honored the roots of Normandy by projecting Norse runes onto the cathedral. Quite an amazing sight
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Small room in Paris, France
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Mont Saint Michel Abbey, France
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Tidal Flats off coast of France.
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9000 IQ France
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In WWII, after France fell, there was a fleet of the French Navy off the coast of Africa. Churchill asked them to join The Royal Navy. When the French refused, he attacked them.
I understand the Allies didnβt want the ships to fall into German hands. I donβt understand why the French Navy didnβt join the a British or just sail away to a French colony or something. Why did they choose to get attacked and killed. 1300 men died and three battleships were destroyed.
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Paris, France.
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U.S. should look at how other high-income countries regulate health care costs. Standardizing fee-for-service payments and structuring negotiations between insurers and providers could make U.S. health care more affordable, finds new study based on France, Germany and Japan.
eurekalert.org/pub_releasβ¦
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Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France
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Where Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slowakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czechia, Hungary and Cyprus meet!
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How far France is from you ?
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People in France who refuse to get coronavirus test or vaccine could be restricted from using public transportation. Newly introduced bill designed to provide French government with legal framework for dealing with coronavirus pandemic and future public health crises.
newsweek.com/people-who-fβ¦
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Official Poster for Nomadland. Coming February 2021. Directed by ChloΓ© Zhao, Starring Frances McDormand
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Some 2,500 partygoers attended an illegal New Year rave in northwestern France, violently clashing with police who failed to stop it and sparking concern the underground event could spread the coronavirus. The revellers had set up the illegal rave in Lieuron in Brittany after skirmishes with police
france24.com/en/live-newsβ¦
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A high street in France during the second world war in 1944, and the same high street now
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Vive la France!
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German soldiers having a snowball fight in a train yard while awaiting deployment. France, 1944. (original color) [1085x720]
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France bans use of drones to police protests in Paris - France's top administrative court has backed privacy campaigners by imposing a ban on police use of drones for covering public protests in Paris.
bbc.com/news/world-europeβ¦
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Incredibly rare fossil of an octopus found in France, 1982. Because of an Octopus soft-tissue paleontologists seldom find any fossils of them. This one is 165 million yrs old.
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Tour De France leg.
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TIL Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son Quentin Roosevelt I was a pilot in World War I and was killed in France during combat. He is the only child of a US President to die in combat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queβ¦
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Viva La France!
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Alsace, Eastern France, topography map
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