FRANCE

BY
MARIA FERNANDA ZAPATA RUIZ
LUISA FERNANDA TILANO PATIO

ANTONIO BARBOSA
TEACHER

TENTH DEGREE
INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA EL BOSQUE
MEDELLIN, ANTIOQUIA
2016

FRANCE
HISTORY
It is one of the most ancient conditions of Europe, though only it appears with such a
name from the Middle Ages in a date difficult to be necessary in an irrefutable way. The
Gallia is recognized exactly as historical precedent of France, though the Gallia was
occupying an European surface lightly more extensive than the France actual.es a
sovereign country, member of Union European, constituted in State social and
democratic of right and whose form of government is the republic semipresidencialista.
His capital is Paris
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
What is known as continental France is located in
western part of the European continent, in turn this
country limits in the southern part with the sea
Mediterranean, as well as also with the
principality of Monaco, and with Italy, mints
that in the western part the natural border is the
Atlantic Ocean, whereas in the northern part it
borders on the English Channel, the North
Sea and Belgium. In America, it is a territory of France
the French Guiana, They are uninhabited
territories of France Isla Clipperton's atoll, in
oriental Pacific.
France is a condition of western Europa, formed on one hand
a series of departments of overseas.

the

the
metropolitan and

FLAG
The flag of France is Originated in the liberal ideas
of the famous French Revolution both his colors
and design they took as an executor the Marquess
of Lafayette, who in addition propitiated the
necessary thing in order that it was adopted as the
native emblem. The official recognition of the
French flag of three vertical bands would come
across the constitutions of 1946 and 1958, being
present with his colors that symbolize the
freedom, equality and brotherhood the three ideal principal ones that moved the
Revolution.

SHIELD
It has his origin in the 19th century, though some of his elements
adopted during the Revolution of 1789. Since it happens in
other countries, the emblem uses as one of the symbols
of the State, but it is not considered to be an official
emblem, since the French State does not have officially
emblem or heraldic shield. His design incorporates
elements gathered from the Greco-Roman tradition,
as the fasces or bundle of lictores and the branches
of oak or oak and olive tree (laurel for many authors).
The version used at present was adopted in 1953, when
General Assembly of the United Nations requested to the
countries members of the organization a copy of his shield or
emblem. In that occasion, since it had happened previously, there
approved a legal norm that was regulating the shield.

were

the
national
was
not

CURRENCY
The currency of France at present is the Euro, since this country belongs to the
Economic European Community for what the current currency in this place is the same
that the one that exists in all the
countries of this community.
Previous to the incorporation of
the Euro like current currency in
the French territory, the currency
that was used was the French
Franc, which was applying for all
this territory, as well as also to the
colonies that this country has in
Africa and in the Pacific Ocean.

TOURIST SITES
Francia, por contar con gran cantidad de atractivos tursticos y lugares para ver es que
se ha convertido desde buen tiempo atrs en uno de los ms importantes y concurridos
destinos tursticos de toda Europa, acogiendo gran cantidad de visitantes anualmente;
adems de que es el primer destino turstico mundial, con 83 millones de visitantes
extranjeros por ao.

EIFFEL TOWER
It is one of the most out-standing and a representative monument of quite France, and it
was inaugurated on the occasion of the centenary of the French Revolution, rising up to
324 meters of high place. It is a metal framework pudelado designed by the engineers
Maurice Koechlin and Emilee Nouguier. Placed in the end of Mars' Field to the shore of
the river Seine, this Parisian monument, symbol of France and of his capital, is the
highest structure of the city and the monument that entered cobra more visited of the
world, with 7, 1 million
tourists every year. With a height of 300 meters,
prolonged later with an
antenna up to 324 meters, the Eiffel Tower was the
highest structure of the
world for 41 years.
After finishing his function
it was used in tests of the
nowadays
it
serves,

as part of the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900,

French army by antennas of communication, and
besides tourist attraction, as issuer of wireless and
television programs.

THE ARCH
OF THE

VICTORY
It is one of the most famous monuments of the
French capital and probably it is a question of the
arch of more famous victory of the world.
Constructed between 1806 and 1836 on order of
Napoleon Bonaparte to commemorate the victory in
Austerlitz's battle, is it placed in the District VIII of Paris, on the square Charles de
Gaulle? Former named square of the Star or, in Frenchman, Place de l'toile, in the
western end of the avenue of the Champs Elyses.
He presents a height of 50 m, a width of 45 m and a depth of 22 m. The big vault
measures 29, 19 m of high place per 14, 62 m of width, whereas the small one
measures 18, 68 m of high place per 8, 44 m of width. It is managed by the center of the
national monuments. On the exterior faces of the Arch there are recorded the names of
big revolutionaries and the military victories of Napoleon I. On the interior walls of the
monument there are inscribed the names of 558 generals of the French Empire. The
names of those who died in combat are underlined.

MUSEUM OF THE LOUVRE

It is the national museum of France dedicated to the art previous to the
impressionism, both fine arts and archaeology and
decorative arts. He is one of the most important of
the world. It is located in Paris (France), in the
former royal palace of the Louvre, and
nowadays he promotes two subheadquarters, in Lens (France) and in
Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
His extensive collections are the result of a
double historical effort. To the collecting developed by the French monarchy along
several centuries, there added the effort of the men of the Illustration, the disentailing
labor of the French Revolution and the archaeological campaigns and purchases
stimulated during all the 19th century. The opening of the Louvre in 1793 meant, inside
the history of the museums, the transfer of the collections deprived of the leader classes
(monarchy, aristocracy and Church) to galleries of public property for enjoyment of the
set of the company.
CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME
It is a cathedral of catholic Roman worship, headquarters
of the archdiocese of Paris, the capital of France. It is a
question of one of the most solitary and ancient buildings
of all those they were constructed in Gothic style. His
building was begun in the year 1163 and finished in the
year 1345. Dedicated to Maria, mother of Jesus Christ,
Seine places in the small Isla de la Cite surrounded by the
waters of the river. It is one of the most popular
monuments of the French capital. The name of the
cathedral Our Lady means and is dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. In Notre Dame there have been celebrated important events, between which it
would be necessary to emphasize Napoleon's Bonaparte coronation, Juana's
beatification of Arch and the coronation of Enrique VI of England.

FRENCH GASTRONOMY
She is considered to be one of the most important of the world. It is characterized by his
variety, fruit of the regional French diversity, so much cultural as of raw materials, but
also for his refinement 1 2 His influence is left to feel in almost all the kitchens of the
western world, which have been incorporating into his bases technical knowledge of the
French kitchen.

MAGRET DE CANARD
Spanish to loin, that is to say, one says to a filet of
the habit of coming from a goose or fattened duck,
being very important that the bird has been fed before,
since in it it takes root in the difference between
being considered magret or traditional breast.
Thus, if magret means loin, canard is
equivalent to duck, with what this plate consists
of loin of roast duck. This plate is elaborated by
lean pork of duck or fattened goose, which is
served to filets. Habitually, it is served with
sauce of orange and of garrison couscous, rice
or roast potatoes can be included.

lean pork, that it is in

In spite of the fact that he seems to have been an acquaintance for a lot of time, the
magret is a recent invention. Traditionally, the meat of the fattened duck was prepared in
confit, and the entire roast was reserved to the ordinary duck. He was Andr Daguin,
chef of the Htel de France in Auch (Gers), the first one in designing this way of
preparing the filets of duck fed at the beginning of the year 1960. Daguin pleaded for
choosing between the use of the French-fried term him maigret and the Gascon term
magret, but it ended the mixed form being imposed in Frenchman him magret.
MERLUZA AL BEURRE BLANC
This plate consists of trunks or loins of hake that are served in sauce beurre blanc. This
sauce is typical of France and, concretely, it comes from the region of Brittany. It is
elaborated based on butter (though it is those who prefer using cream of milk Milbona)
mixed with a reduction of white wine and chalotas. The history of the invention of the
sauce beurre blanc is of the most curious, since as it counts the legend, actually it arose
immediately after a mistake committed by the French cook Clmence Lefeuvre, who
forgot to throw egg on having prepared a sauce bearnesa (willow barnaise in
Frenchman).
Beurre Blanc is translated literally as ' white butter ', and is not any more than a sauce
than butter that is elaborated from a reduction of white wine (or vinegar), chalotas and
go out, sometimes enriched with born and spiced with black pepper and / or tabasco.

CANELS
These small but delicious bizcochitos are
original Bordeaux,
to
the
Southwest of
France,
in
the
region
of
Aquitaine. The characteristic cylindrical aspect with folds of
each one of these sponge cakes is the motive for which they
call canels, since in language Gascon, canelat means
canaln (type of pipeline).
His recipe includes the following basic ingredients: eggs, milk,
sugar, butter, flour, rum and vanilla. To obtain the form that
characterizes them there are used a few special molds of copper
destined to this end. Though the traditional molds are of copper, also they are of aliminio
or even of silicone. Over every sponge cake is added a cap of candy, reason by which
they are cooked in two differentiated stages, to different temperatures: hereby, whereas
the interior remains spongy, the cap of out remains creaking and dark.
COQ AU VIN
It is one of the plates most known about the Occitan a kitchen, across France, as
nationalized plate. In this zone there is very typical this type of stew, which is done by
duck or goose in the south, and also with other meats, for example, ox / cow.

Also it is a question of a stew of chicken in

which is added a great quantity of wine
(generally the used wine is stained but
sometimes the white is in use). Some
vegetable of type is in the habit of having in
addition turnip or onion and the versions
improved even can include some mushroom,
traditionally the Morchella). Many regions of
France dispute the invention of this plate, but
the legend says that the recipe is original of
Julio Csar's Chef that wanted to offer him an honoring for the conquest of the Galia.
This plate takes the chicken and the wine as principal ingredients. The bacon uses for
freir the chicken in the first stages together with some onions, something is used
sometimes of butter. It is in the habit of aromatizing by thyme, laurel, garlic and
something of brandy.
ACTUALITY OF FRANCE
France is the sixth world economy with a very high cultural diffusion in the international
context. He is a member of the G8, of the euro-zone and of the Schengen territory, and
shelters to many of the most important multinational, leading companies in diverse
segments of the industry and of the primary sector, besides which it is the first tourist
world destination, with 83 million foreign visitors per year.
The French president Francois
Hollande headed in Nice an
emotive national honoring in
memory of 86 dead men in the
attempt committed by a yihadista in
the southern port last July 14,
national day of France. The
honoring took place in a hill from
which there is spied the maritime
walk of the English men of Nice,
scene hundred where of persons,
congregated to be present at a spectacle of fireworks, they were wound by a n." It had to
be a day of happiness and it was a hell ", commented Hollande in a speech that it
declared in the event to which there came members of 200 families with victims or
injured men in the attempt. In addition there were present foreign delegations and
numerous politicians of all the ideological trends.

What was struck on July 14 was the national unit ", said Hollande, whose government
was criticized by the operative police one opened in Nice the night of the attempt,
considered insufficient by some inhabitants and politicians of the Mediterranean port.
But this damaging company will fail the Gallic president added in reference to the
Islamic State as which there had sharm the author of the assault, the Tunisian Mohamed
Lahouaiej Bouhlel. This war will be long and the threat follows high in spite of the
reverses that the Islamic State knows ", admitted the chief of State.