English Exonyms - France

France

  • Alpes : Alps
  • Bretagne : Brittany
  • Bourgogne : Burgundy
  • Corse : Corsica, English uses local Corsican and Italian name
  • Côte d'Azur : The French Riviera
  • Dunkerque : Dunkirk
  • Gascogne : Gascony
  • Golfe de Gascogne : Bay of Biscay
  • Lyon : now historically Lyons
  • Marseille : now historically Marseilles
  • Normandie : Normandy
  • Ouessant : island of Ushant, also Ouessant
  • Picardie : Picardy
  • Pyrénées : Pyrenees
  • Reims : Rheims
  • Rhin : Rhine
  • Savoie : Savoy

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Famous quotes containing the word france:

    The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!
    Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    While learning the language in France a young man’s morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)