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St. Pierre is named for Saint Peter, the patron saint of this locally important occupation.
What is fishing?
This city on Grande-Terre is the chief port and economic hub of Guadeloupe
What is Point-à-Pitre?
This 7'5" French basketball player is known to have lived on the Ile de la Grande Jatte.
Who is Victor Wembanyama?
Europa and Juan de Nova are two of these residual territories of France.
What are the Scattered Islands?
This overseas collectivity is the only one that is also a country with its own president.
What is French Polynesia?
In 1931, the NY Times reported that St. Pierre & Miquelon imported over 1.8 million gallons of this alcoholic beverage in only 12 months for smuggling into the United States.
What is whiskey?
The Salvation Islands are just north of this capital of French Guiana.
What is Cayenne?
These salt-tolerant trees form swamps on the banks of the Salée River and provide important protection to tropical coastlines.
What are mangroves?
This island is separated from Sardinia by the 7-mile Strait of Bonifacio.
What is Corsica?
In December 2024, Category 4 tropical cyclone Chido leveled whole neighborhoods and left at least 1/3 of the population with no shelter or access to clean water in this French département.
What is Mayotte?
This uninhabited atoll is the only French island in the North Pacific.
What is Clipperton Island?
Henri Charrière's autobiography about his 9-yr imprisonment on Devil's Island was titled for this insect that has undergone a metamorphosis.
What is Papillon/Butterfly?
This island is the only place in the world where France borders the Netherlands.
What is Saint Martin?
This small island used to be called the Île Notre-Dame, and its eastern part was renamed Île aux Vaches after the grazing cattle being sent to market.
What is Île Saint-Louis?
*****This airport in Sainte-Marie on La Réunion is named for a French aviator born in Saint-Denis, and shares its name with the French Open and the stadium where it takes place.
What is Roland Garros?
This is the capital of New Caledonia.
What is Nouméa?
This highest point on Miquelon literally means "Hill of the tall mountain."
What is Morne de la Grande Montagne?
Love's Agony is a small one of these, crunchy on the outside and filled with creamy coconut, banana, or guava inside.
What is a tart? (une tarte)
Henry III of England returned this island to King Louis IX of France in 1243.
What is Île de Ré?
This southern territory, not an island, was named for an explorer's wife, a name it shares with a species of penguin that also appears on its coat of arms.
What is Adélie Land? (Terre Adélie)
The rhinoceros beetle destroyed coconut groves on this island in the 1930s.
What is Uvea? (Wallis)
This species of monkey, named for an order of monks who wear robes with large hoods, may steal your food in French Guiana.
What is capuchin?
The embrace of Blackness and Africanness as a counter to the legacy of slavery and colonialism was dubbed this concept which became the name of the literary movement represented by Aimé Césaire of Martinique.
What is Négritude?
This famous international actress discovered Belle-Ile in 1894 and purchased the small fort at Pointe des Poulains, which became her summer retreat for nearly 30 years.
Who is Sarah Bernhardt?
In 1665, this company sent the first settlers to La Réunion, where they developed a plantation economy on the cultivation of sugarcane and coffee.
What is the French East India Company?
This marine preserve is the closest one to Nouméa and features an underwater trail that offers glimpses of turtles, parrotfish, surgeonfish, butterflyfish, and other tropical species.
What is Duck Island (Canard)?