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:
“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)