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This pair of islands near Canada was settled by seafaring Basques, Normans and Bretons.
What is St. Pierre et Miquelon?
This island got its name from a shrine to Mary in Spain.
What is Guadeloupe?
This city is the capital of Corsica.
What is Ajaccio?
This is the poorest territory in both France and the EU, and is made up of two islands -- Grande Terre and Petite Terre.
What is Mayotte?
These animals are of ceremonial importance and highly valued in Wallis and Futuna.
What are pigs?
A statue of this Frankish king and emperor on horseback is the largest monument on the Parvis in front of Notre Dame de Paris.
Who is Charlemagne?
Albert Londres, French journalist said about these islands, "They have put hell in Paradise."
What are the Salvation Islands (Iles du Salut)?
Though slavery was abolished in Guadeloupe in 1794, this emperor of France reestablished slavery in 1802.
Who is Napoleon (I)?
Over 3,500 of these French protestants were sent to the Chateau d'If.
Who are the Huguenots?
The coral reefs that surround these largely uninhabited islands provide a safe nursery for sea turtles.
What are the Scattered Islands?
A typical lunch in French Polynesia often includes poisson cru au lait de coco, this in coconut milk.
What is raw fish?
Joseph Néel, a convicted murderer, was executed on St. Pierre in August 1889 by this device, which is now housed in a museum there.
What is the guillotine?
This is the main river on Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe.
What is Goyaves?
The Iles du Frioul are found off the coast of this French port city on the Mediterranean.
What is Marseille?
In 2005 and 2006, this island was hit hard by an epidemic of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease. According to the BBC News, roughly 255,000 people here had contracted the disease.
What is La Réunion?
After this historical event, the Japanese were expelled from the French colony of New Caledonia.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Saint-Joseph Island is separated from this noble-sounding island by Passe de Désirade.
What is Ile Royale?
This French collectivity has one of the highest population densities in the Antilles with nearly 800 people per square mile.
What is Martinique?
This animal's milk is used to make fine Corsican cheeses.
What are sheep (ewes)?
When lava flows from Piton de la Fournaise threatened Monsieur Leroux's fields in Sainte-Rose on La Réunion, he allegedly set up a statue of this woman holding a parasol, and his lands were spared destruction.
Who is the Virgin Mary?
The Lycée Paul Gauguin is located in the capital city of this island.
What is Tahiti?
This island of 35 square miles, also called Little Miquelon, is connected to Miquelon by a sandy isthmus called La Dune.
What is Langlade?
********This Martinican author, poet, playwright and politician explored the paradox of Black identity under French colonial rule and founded the Négritude movement with Léopold Senghor and Léon Damas.
Who is Aimé Césaire?
To reach Belle-Ile-en-Mer, take a ferry from Vannes across this gulf.
What is the Gulf of Morbihan?
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, La Réunion National Park protects the ecosystems of Les Hauts, the mountainous interior of this island, home to a number of endemic species, including a cuckooshrike and one day species of this usually nocturnal small lizard.
What is a gecko?
This flower, also called the Tahitian Gardenia, is worn by women at the ear to signal if they are available or if they have a romantic partner.
What is the tiaré?