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Potpourri
100
This river flows through the capital of France.
What is the Seine?
100
The storming of this fortress prison is considered to be the starting point of the first French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
100
This Parisian museum began as a 12th-century fortress and later was a royal palace.
What is the Louvre?
100
Name of this celebrated French character.
Who is The Little Prince?
100
The current president of the French Republic, first elected to that office in May 2017 with 66% of the vote. He was re-elected to a second term in 2022.
Who is Emmanuel Macron?
200
This mountain range separates France from Spain.
What are The Pyrenees?
200
On this date and year, the storming of the Bastille took place.
What is the 14th of July, 1789?
200
This early 20th Century painter was famous for his "impressionist" paintings of water lillies.
Who is Claude Monet?
200
This French comic album series tells of a Gaulish village which, thanks to a magic potion that enhances strength, resists the forces of Julius Caesar's Roman Republic Army.
What is Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois?
200
This three-word term is France's national motto.
What is "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"?
300
This famous monument is the meeting point for twelve Parisian avenues that form a star.
What is the Arc de Triomphe?
300
This famous Frenchman founded the fifth French republic?
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
300
Although it is now housed in The Louvre in Paris, La Joconde, popularly known as the Mona Lisa, was painted by this Italian painter.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
300
This early 20th Century writer penned the longest novel ever written, À la recherche du temps perdus.
Who was Marcel Proust?
300
Because of its six-sided shape, France is often referred to by this geometrical nickname?
What is L'Hexagone?
400
This French territory is located in South America.
What is French Guyana.
400
This former French colony's 1962 independence caused about a million Europeans to flee to France.
What is Algeria?
400
The title of this painting, by French Painter Henri Matisse, completed in 1910.
What is "La Dance"?
400
This celebrated French writer gave us such monumental works as Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables.
Who is VIctor Hugo?
400
Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, nephew of the celebrated emperor, was more commonly known by this name as head of the Second Empire.
What is "Napoléon III"?
500
This mountain is the highest peak in Western Europe.
What is Mont Blanc?
500
This French monarch was beheaded on January 21st, 1793.
Who was Louis XVI?
500
He painted this portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte crossing the Alps in 1801.
Who was Jacques-Louis David?
500
Best known by this masculine-sounding nom de plume, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil was a celebrated novelist, memoirist and journalist.
WHo was George Sand?
500
Iconic chanteuse Édith Giovanna Gassion, often referred to as "The Little Sparrow," was more commonly known by this name.
What is "Édith Piaf"?
600
In addition to mainland France, this island in the Mediterranean Sea, birthplace of Napoléon Bonaparte, is also a French territory?
What is Corsica?
600
This peasant girl, now a patron saint, famously led the French forces during the Hundred Years' War and helped break the Siege of Orléans.
Who was Jeanne D'Arc?
600
This painting, The Persistence of Memory, by spanish painter Salvador Dali, is an example of what 20th century art movement, founded in France in 1924?
What is surrealism?
600
The oldest surviving major work of French literature is this 11th-century epic poem.
What is The Song of Roland?
600
This town is where Mr. Holst recently bought a house.
What is Sète?