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France has a strange shape. France looks like a hexagon, so because of that lots of people call it “L’hexagone” The area of France in square miles is 248,573. The area of Texas is 268,597 square miles. That means that Texas is larger than France! Bolivia is twice the size of France. France has one of Europe's highest peaks. It is called Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc is at 15,771 feet tall. France has lots of plains, mountains and forests. Some of the mountains go from France to other places like Spain, Italy, and Switzerland.

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Frances seasons are pretty typical. It has summer, spring, winter, and fall. In the summer it is hot and humid, in the spring it is nice, not too cold and not to hot. In the winter, it snows, and is cold. In fall the leaves fall. In the south the climate is mediterranean. Mild winters, hot dry summers. The north is really wet during the winters. The east has lots of upland areas, and the climate is always changing. In the mountain areas there are a lot of summer thunderstorms.

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French is the language that they speak in France. The French government really wants everyone to speak french a lots of France do speak French, despite the different people that live in France. Even people from other countries that stay in France, they want even them to know and understand French. Because they feel that because of all the immigrants who don't know French, that the language will die. In other countries their native language is starting to fade, and France doesn't want that. In schools they are trying to keep different forms of French popular. French students start learning their first foreign language at the age of nine. Some schools have kids learn at the age of five or six. English is the most common first foreign language. Spanish or german are very popular second choices.

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Family is really important in France. Lots of the families in France have one or two children. Immigrants typically have bigger families. Lots of families in France have pets. Grandparents are really important to families in France. They sometimes often take care of their grandchildren when the parents are working. Now lots of people are moving away from their families so that they can study or work. A lot of kids stay home until they find a job for them. French mothers are the “leaders” of the house. Women work outside of their houses a lot but they still get to spend time with their families. Women try to finish their education before they can start having a family. Lots of women have to work harder than men to prove that they are capable of their jobs, which can be challenging. Women mostly marry when they are thirty.

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France is known for fashion, and other things, but fashion is really popular. Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, and Louis Vuitton are all different fashion designers. They are all really popular designers, but there are a lot more. There are all very common. French literature, art and architecture all impacted France in many different ways. France says that classic original writers, like Voltaire and Victor Hugo and many more writers helped introduce different movements like surrealism, existentialism, and postmodernism. Postmodernism is a movement in the late 20th century. Existentialism is a theory that they used in France. Surrealism is a movement that was in the early 1920’s.

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Photography and painting is very popular in France. In 1827 the first ever photo was taken in France! Jacques Daguerre and other french artists decided to make photography considered an art. Photography and art is very important to lots of people in France. In 1896 the first video/motion picture was shown in France. The Pompidou Center and the Louvre are world renowned art museums in France. Some examples of famous architectures are the Eiffel Tower, and the Gothic Cathedrals.

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People in France wear nice clothes almost all the time, so they can look proper and nice in public. Paris is a very popular place for fashion designers. Wearing more professional clothes is a also very popular in France. People from Paris dress a lot more formal than people in other cities. A lot of french women wear a little makeup, and more natural makeup. Schools in France do not have to wear a uniform at school, but they have to follow a dress code. Younger people wear more casual clothes on the weekends, or out of school hours with friends and family. Younger kids also like to try lots of new and different hair styles until they find their style. France tends not to dress up for religious holidays though. Muslim women are being controversial because of how they dress. France banned wearing headscarf in schools and other public areas in 2004. In 2011 they also banned people from wearing face veils.

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Cooking is really big in France. In France cooking is considered an art. French food is very famous all around the world. Lots of chefs make their foods smaller, lighter, and more artistic. Lots of people eat a very light breakfast such as coffee,  bread, croissant and more different foods. The people who live in France tend not to eat fast food because of the health reasons. There are foods made in laboratories, and they don’t think it is safe and healthy. Frances farmers are concerned that because the laboratories can make a lot of food faster, so they are scared that they are going to run out of business. Even though the French still tend to dislike fast food, the country has lots of the fast food restaurants operating across the country.

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France celebrates some holidays that America has, and some that only France has. Lots of the French celebrates New year's and New Year's Eve. They celebrate with big parties and fireworks. Mardi Gras is celebrates with lots of parades, parties, and costumes. Labor Day is typically celebrated with parades, and they also celebrate the start of spring. The French celebrate the Music Party on June 21. It is a night celebration that is at the beginning of summer, and on the longest day of the year. People gather around and watch free concerts of music all night in different cities of France. Bastille day is the celebration of the Bastille prison in Paris during the French Revolution. It celebrates with a giant military parade in Paris. Thousands of people gather and see it in person, and on television. The parade ends in front of the president and his guests. There are smaller parades in different cities of France. Friends and families have small parties, and have picnics, and play games. They also usually have fireworks to celebrate. On november 11 there is a national holiday around France.  It is called Armistice Day. Some of the cities have parades. Political figures have speeches about the World War I. Military cemetery have ceremonies with stories and pictures of Veterans. Television stations have documentaries about the war that has happened.

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Most of France is Christian. More than 60 percent of France is christian, mainly roman Catholic.  Half of the Christians in France have religious weddings, and lots of them baptize their children. Religious ceremonies have made people who are a lot less religious, get mad and angry. They sometimes even protest. There are a lot of other religions in France like Islam. Between 7-9 persent of France practices Islam, which makes it the second largest popular religion in France. And a lot of younger generations are practicing islam. Only a little less than France is Jewish, and less than one percent is Buddhist, and only about twenty five percent of France says that they don't have practice any religion (known as atheists). It is not a fully enforced law, but you are not allowed to wear your religious symbols out in public spaces. Religion cannot influence politics, and politics cannot influence religion.

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Protests and money issues were and still are big in France. Students and workers protested about strict and hard educational systems and very bad working conditions. The protest lead the law to make minimum wage higher, and the protest made a large effect on France in 1968. The new generations were still thinking about the protest from 1968, so in the 1990’s students would protest the conditions in public schools, and they also changed the wage laws. The western countries in Europe decided to make their money all the same so that not each country has different types of money, so when people are traveling you can use one type of money instead of having to convert it all the time. Frances companies were struggling to pay for workers which affected Frances people a lot. Some people are making a lot less money, or getting fired because the business can’t pay for them. So because of that France put 40 billion euros into the economy then decided to save 45 billion euros by cutting the spending. Francois Hollande because the first socialist, believing that everyone should be on the same level of wealth. He was the field socialist to take office in 23 years, on may 2012. There was a lot of people in France that believed in socialism, who helped him, and supported him. He wanted to stop spending and start saving, and raised the taxes to the corporations. He wasn't helping businesses get enough money. Instead he was taxing them.

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In 1940-1944 there was a war that covered Germany. After the World War the fourth republic was announced in 1946. The fifth republic was announced in 1958 when Charles De Gaulle was President. The military leader of France is Napoleon Bonaparte. He called himself the ruler. Napoleon took over most of europe until he caused a lot of damage in Russia, then he was banished from Paris. The king of France's name is Luis XIV. Other countries in Europe defeated the royals ( Kings Queens) Which caused the French Revolution to happen ( as seen in the image below) . Louis XIV was kick off of his position of king, so the whole country went crazy, and was behaving really bad. They were angry and aggressive.

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Agriculture is really important, but not many workers in France work in the farming agriculture. Only three percent of workers in France work in agriculture. They grow different foods such as wine, milk, butter, cheese, barley and wheat. Some big industries are motor vehicles, aircraft, chemicals, and food processing. Steel and textile industries used to be really popular, but now it is a lot less popular. Some exports can be machinery and other transportation equipment, steel products, and other different types of agricultural goods.  More than half of France's energy is made from nuclear power plants. 75 percent of the people in France work in the service sector. The service sector means that 75 percent of the people that work are farming, mining, manufacturing and making different things.

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The people in France have a good economy. They have a large industrial economy that allows people to enjoy the good things you get from it. The former president cut the public on spending and taxes for businesses to see if more people are getting jobs around France, but that didn’t work well. By 2012 a little bit over 24 percent of the younger generations had jobs. 9.9 percent of France is unemployed. But the amount of  unemployed people is affecting France. Inflation means that prices of food, gas and more is rising. Inflation is not good because food is becoming a lot more expensive, and the gas is harder to pay for which can make people poor, and they won't be able to pay for things. In France, the inflation is low, which is a good thing. They find the average household income by dividing the amount of people in the country by dividing the total amount of money in the country. The average amount is $41,200 in France each year.

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France’s government is a republic,because they are a republic, they can vote in France, the voting age is 18. The Judicial Branch has the Supreme Court of Appeals, Constitutional council and the Council of State. In the constitutional council there are nine different leaders. Three are by the president, three by the president of the national assembly, and the president of the senate has three. The senate has 348 members that serve a six year term. The national assembly has 577 members that serve for a 5 year term. There is a law that says you can not wear your religious symbols in public areas. Even though civil rights are appreciated in France.There are lots of Muslims and human rights organizations that say that this law is very unfair.

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The French government is not that different than the American government. The president of France is Emmanuel Macron. He was just recently elected in may 2017. Presidents serve for a 5 year term, and is allowed to serve for another term. The Prime Minister's name is Bernard Cazeneuve. The president of France gets to choose the Prime Minister during the National Assembly. The Prime Minister of France is the head of the Council of Ministers, which makes him the head of the state.The political parties have to have an equal amount of men and women.There can be no more than a 2 percent difference in the women and men in the political parties. The senate is the one that makes the amount of men and women equal.