My luminous shelf by Alexa Gomez https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3 Made with a little mischief en-us 2018-09-28 17:48:25 UTC 2026-03-17 00:28:59 UTC hello@padlet.com tens of thousands of striking rail workers, public sector staff and students have rallied across France against President Emmanuel Macron.Demonstrators chanted and carried anti-Macron banners on Thursday in Paris and other cities such as Lyon and Marseille, but the scale of the protests appeared below expectations.About 15,000 rallied in Paris, according to a count by crowd consultancy, Occurrence, while police estimated the number at 11,500. Hard-left CGT union, the main organiser, put the crowd at 50,000."We're here for public services. We're ready to continue the whole summer, even into September and October," Helene Tricre, a 25-year-old ticket inspector working for the SNCF railway, told AFP news agency at the Paris rally.The peaceful march was marred by occasional clashes between police and far-left groups, many of them hooded and masked, who were seen smashing shop windows. 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287080306 2018-09-28 17:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287080306 Declaration of independence 1198351 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287085378 2018-09-28 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287085378 The France Declaration of Independence was on august 1789. 119475 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287093287 2018-09-28 18:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287093287 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJHehOvnPio 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287781650 2018-10-01 17:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287781650 France is the world's most popular tourist destination – some 83.7 million visitors arrived in France, according to the World Tourism Organization report published in 2014, making it the world's most-visited country.France is the largest country in the EU, and known as 'the hexagon' – with an area of 551,000 sq km it's almost a fifth of the EU’s total area, and due to its six-sided shape France is sometimes referred to as l’hexagone. About a quarter is covered by forest; only Sweden and Finland have more.Louis XIX was the king of France for just 20 minutes, the shortest ever reign – he ascended to the French throne in July 1830 after his father Charles X abdicated, and abdicated himself 20 minutes later in favour of his nephew, the Duke of Bordeaux. He shares this record with Crown Prince Luís Filipe, who technically became king of Portugal after his father was assassinated but died from a wound 20 minutes later. Liberté, égalitié, fraternité meaning ‘liberty, equality and fraternity’ (or brotherhood) is the national motto of France – it first appeared around the time of the Revolution (1789–1799), and was written into the constitutions of 1946 and 1958. Today you’ll see it on coins, postage stamps and government logos often alongside ‘Marianne’ who symbolises the ‘triumph of the Republic’. The legal system in France is still largely based on the principles set down in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Code Civil after the revolution, in the 1800s.The French Army was the first to use camouflage in 1915 (World War I) – the word camouflage came from the French verb ‘to make up for the stage’. Guns and vehicles were painted by artists called camofleurs. In France you can marry a dead person – under French law, in exceptional cases you can marry posthumously, as long as you can also prove that the deceased had the intention of marrying while alive and you receive permission from the French president. The most recent approved case was in 2017, when the partner of a gay policeman gunned down on Paris's Champs-Elysees by a jihadist was granted permission to marry his partner posthumously.The French have produced a number of world-renown inventions: the 'father of canning' confectioner Nicolas Appert came up with the idea to use sealed glass jars placed in boiling water to preserve food in 1809, and the later use of tin cans was the idea of another Frenchman, Pierre Durand; the reading and writing system for the blind, braille, was developed by Louis Braille who was blinded as a child; physician René Laennec invented the stethoscope at a hospital in Paris in 1816, first discovered by rolling up paper into a tube; and Alexandre-Ferdinand Godefroy patented a contraption was the world's first hair dryer in 1888. The Montgolfier brothers Joseph and Etienne became pioneers of hot air flight after the world's first public display of an untethered hot air balloon in 1783. A less known fact is that the popular game Etch-a-Sketch was invented in the 1950s after French electrical technician André Cassagnes peeled a translucent transfer from a light switch plate and discovered his pencil marks remained on its underside, a result of the electrostatically charged metallic powder.France was the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food – since February 2016, shops must donate wastage to food banks or charities. 119475 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287789586 2018-10-01 18:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287789586 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287790125 2018-10-01 18:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287790125 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287790548 2018-10-01 18:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287790548 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287791757 2018-10-01 18:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287791757 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287792860 2018-10-01 18:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287792860 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287794305 2018-10-01 18:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287794305 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287794545 2018-10-01 18:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287794545 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287804392 2018-10-01 18:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287804392 France is the world's most popular tourist destination – some 83.7 million visitors arrived in France, according to the World Tourism Organization report published in 2014, making it the world's most-visited country.France is the largest country in the EU, and known as 'the hexagon' – with an area of 551,000 sq km it's almost a fifth of the EU’s total area, and due to its six-sided shape France is sometimes referred to as l’hexagone. About a quarter is covered by forest; only Sweden and Finland have more.Louis XIX was the king of France for just 20 minutes, the shortest ever reign – he ascended to the French throne in July 1830 after his father Charles X abdicated, and abdicated himself 20 minutes later in favour of his nephew, the Duke of Bordeaux. He shares this record with Crown Prince Luís Filipe, who technically became king of Portugal after his father was assassinated but died from a wound 20 minutes later. Liberté, égalitié, fraternité meaning ‘liberty, equality and fraternity’ (or brotherhood) is the national motto of France – it first appeared around the time of the Revolution (1789–1799), and was written into the constitutions of 1946 and 1958. Today you’ll see it on coins, postage stamps and government logos often alongside ‘Marianne’ who symbolises the ‘triumph of the Republic’. The legal system in France is still largely based on the principles set down in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Code Civil after the revolution, in the 1800s.The French Army was the first to use camouflage in 1915 (World War I) – the word camouflage came from the French verb ‘to make up for the stage’. Guns and vehicles were painted by artists called camofleurs. In France you can marry a dead person – under French law, in exceptional cases you can marry posthumously, as long as you can also prove that the deceased had the intention of marrying while alive and you receive permission from the French president. The most recent approved case was in 2017, when the partner of a gay policeman gunned down on Paris's Champs-Elysees by a jihadist was granted permission to marry his partner posthumously.The French have produced a number of world-renown inventions: the 'father of canning' confectioner Nicolas Appert came up with the idea to use sealed glass jars placed in boiling water to preserve food in 1809, and the later use of tin cans was the idea of another Frenchman, Pierre Durand; the reading and writing system for the blind, braille, was developed by Louis Braille who was blinded as a child; physician René Laennec invented the stethoscope at a hospital in Paris in 1816, first discovered by rolling up paper into a tube; and Alexandre-Ferdinand Godefroy patented a contraption was the world's first hair dryer in 1888. The Montgolfier brothers Joseph and Etienne became pioneers of hot air flight after the world's first public display of an untethered hot air balloon in 1783. A less known fact is that the popular game Etch-a-Sketch was invented in the 1950s after French electrical technician André Cassagnes peeled a translucent transfer from a light switch plate and discovered his pencil marks remained on its underside, a result of the electrostatically charged metallic powder.France was the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food – since February 2016, shops must donate wastage to food banks or charities. 119475 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287805552 2018-10-01 18:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287805552 1196711 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287806236 2018-10-01 18:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/287806236 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288291994 2018-10-02 17:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288291994 Racism Against the Algerians 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288300722  Algerians were not distinguished from the French but simply called “workers originating from Algeria”.  Algerians had French nationality, so they were not called foreigners; however, they did not enjoy the same rights as French citizens.Algerians had the same rights as French citizens, Algerian law has never been applicable in France.]]> 2018-10-02 18:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288300722 Racism against North Africans (Arabs and Berbers) 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288305118 In May 2005, riots broke out between North Africans (Arabs and Berbers) and Romani in Perpigan, after a young North African man was shot dead and another North African man was lynched by a group of Romani people. In 2010, a poll found that 28% of French people think that North Africans are "more likely to commit crimes than members of other ethnic groups". ]]> 2018-10-02 18:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288305118 Racism Against Chinese People 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288307446 In June 2013 six Chinese students were attacked in a racist incident in Bordeaux. One of the students had a bottle thrown at her face, causing injuries that required surgery. The incident prompted the Chinese government to demand protection for their citizens.]]> 2018-10-02 18:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288307446 Racism against Italians 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288308531 In 1881,  the French settled in Sicily were massacred and driven out of Sicilian soil.]]> 2018-10-02 18:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288308531 Racism against Roma 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288310170 In July 2013, a nighttime attack on a Roma camp in Seine-Saint-Denis took place. In 2010, the United Nations accused France of racism against Roma as it began deportations, declaring: "The United Nations finds the recent French government hardline stance worrisome." Activists charged that France's treatment of Roma was 'simply inhuman.' It was condemned as "abusive and racist," saying "the Roma have too often been Europe's scapegoats.]]> 2018-10-02 18:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288310170 The president of france is Emmanuel Macron. 119475 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288313853 2018-10-02 18:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288313853 m_adams3 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288824734 2018-10-03 18:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288824734 1198351 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288832991 2018-10-03 18:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288832991 1198211 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288834942 2018-10-03 18:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288834942 -French leader- 119475 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288835637 2018-10-03 18:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288835637 1198351 https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288837033 2018-10-03 18:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1198351/ujsge4fyrwt3/wish/288837033