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 anarchy, assassination, and sacrilege by which the Kingdom of France has been disgraced, desolated, and polluted for some years past cannot but have excited the strongest emotions of horror in every virtuous Briton. But within these days our hearts have been pierced by the recital of proceedings in that country more brutal than any recorded in the annals of the world.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
““Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?” asked Marco.
“Why not? I like it anywhere. It’s all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.””
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)