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The underground cemetery in Paris.
What is the Catacombs?
I discovered radium and radioactivity.
Who was Marie Curie?
The easiest river in France to navigate.
What is the Seine?
He built Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV, the Sun King?
What the French people stormed that started the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
Louis XIV built this palace/castle.
What is Versailles?
I was born in Corsica, became a famous general and later Emperor of France.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
France is bordered on the west by this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Chenonceau spans this river.
What is the River Cher?
I was called King of the Franks and I introduced Christianity to the region.
Who was Clovis?
The money that is now used in France.
What is the "euro"?
Who was Louis XIV?
This mountain range to the east forms France's border with Switzerland.
What are the Alps?
This castle was used as the model in the Disney movie version of Beauty and the Beast.
What is Chambord?
I helped the American colonists fight for independence.
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
The 3 week-long bicycle race around France.
What is the Tour de France?
I started the Protestant Reformation by nailing complaints against the Catholic church to the church door.
Who was Martin Luther?
The highest point in France.
What is Mont Blanc?
The Loire River Valley is home to this many chateaux.
What is over 50?
This disease killed one-third of the French population in 1348.
What was the Bubonic plague?
The Mona Lisa is displayed in this famous museum in Paris.
What is the Louvre?
I started the system of feudalism and was also called Charlemagne.
Who was Charles the Great?
The 6 countries that border France.
What are Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Andorra and Spain?
King who had the Chambord castle built.
Who was Francois?
I defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours.
Who was Charles the Hammer?