French-at-a-touch.com's
treatment of France is in the form of a travel directory for France. The 22
French regions, 95
French départements and thousands of
French cities are touched upon. Scores of the most important
French cities are covered in detail. There are numerous
maps for each of the regions and départements. There is information about, and links to, the more important French cities such as
Paris,
Marsailles,
Lyon,
Strasbourg,
Bordeaux,
Clermont-Ferrand,
Rennes,
Bourges,
Chartres,
Blois,
Orleans,
Ajaccio,
Bastia,
Versailles,
Nimes,
Montpellier,
Limoges, Nantes,
Nancy,
Metz, Toulouse, Lille,
Rouen, Caen, Amiens, Angouleme,
Nice,
Toulon, Avignon, Grenoble and Annecy.
There is detailed information about each of the French regions:
Alsace,
Aquitaine,
Auvergne,
Burgundy,
Brittany,
Center,
Champagne-Ardennes,
Corsica,
Franche-Comte,
Ile-de-France,
Languedoc-Roussillon,
Limousin,
Lorraine,
Midi-Pyrenees,
Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
Lower Normandy,
Upper Normandy,
Overseas Territories,
Western Loire,
Picardie,
Poitou-Charentes,
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur and
Rhone-Alpes. The Overseas Territories provide information about, and links to,
Guadeloupe,
Saint-Barthelemy,
Martinique,
Saint-Martin,
French Polynesia,
French Guiana, the
Loyalty Islands,
Mayotte,
New Caledonia,
Reunion,
Saint-Pierre et Miquelon,
Wallis et Futuna and the French Antarctic Territories.
The countries that preceded France, the old French provinces and other areas are also covered: The province of
Aquitaine, the
Basque lands, Gascony,
the first kingdom of Bourgogne,
the
Bourbonnais province, Soissons,
Austrasia,
Neustria, the free country of Burgundy [Franche-Comté] and Neustria-Burgundy.
France's flag and her history can be found
here, the official information about the French flag, from
France Diplomatie. Click for information regarding her
colors and history.
Flag History from the French Government
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