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During this conflict, the beaches of the Ile de Ré were fortified by the Germans with bunkers, and scenes of the 1962 film The Longest Day were filmed there.
What is World War II?
St. Pierre et Miquelon lie roughly 15 miles south of this Canadian island.
What is Newfoundland?
The Taputapuātea Marae, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is considered the birthplace of this culture.
What is Polynesian?
The capital of Martinique holds a parade with music and elaborate costumes and masks each year to celebrate this season before Lent.
What is Carnival?
This is the capital and largest city of Réunion
What is Saint-Denis?
The Pagerie Museum, located in Martinique, is the reconstructed birthplace of this French Empress who famously wore white.
Who is Joséphine?
This oldest bridge in Paris connects the Ile de la Cité to the rest of Paris across the Seine.
What is the Pont Neuf? (New Bridge)
St. Pierre et Miquelon are part of this chain of mountains.
What are the Appalachians?
This is the largest Windward Island in the Society Islands.
What is Tahiti?
This destination in Guadeloupe will guide you through the discovery of the original flavor of chocolate.
What is the Cocoa House? (La Maison du Cacao)
This département is situated in the Mozambique Channel in the western Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands.
What is Mayotte?
La Maison Berthillon is an historic purveyor of this treat on Ile Saint-Louis.
What is ice cream (sorbet)?
Devil's Island and Ile Royale are separated by this straight whose name sounds like a pomegranate drink.
What is Passe aux Grenadines?
Two days after its last test of these weapons in the Tuamotu archipelago in January 1996, France agreed to comply with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
What are nuclear weapons?
Three forts on this island were built by the Swedes for defense: Fort Oscar, Fort Karl, and Fort Gustav.
What is Saint Barthélémy?
This island, the most southerly of the Scattered Islands, is sheltered by mangroves and shares its name with a moon of Jupiter.
What is Europa?
A monkey on a leash, a man with a pipe, and a variety of Parisians are hanging out in a park on this island depicted by pointillist Georges Seurat.
What is Île de la (Grande) Jatte?
*******This commune in an area of unhealthy lowlands in French Guiana serves as the principal launch site of the European Space Agency.
What is Kourou?
This largest island of Wallis has cultural, historical, and linguistic ties to Tonga.
What is Uvea?
La Désirade in Guadeloupe is a protected Nature Reserve for these animals which can be found on the beach and in the trees.
What are iguanas?
The Victoria variety of this tropical fruit is grown on Réunion and used in desserts and in local curries.
What is pineapple?
The corrupt administration of justice during Genoese rule over Corsica led Corsicans to resort to this private form of vengeance with an Italian name, usually associated with the mafia.
What is a vendetta?
St. Pierre et Miquelon's traditional wooden fishing boats are called this.
What are dories?
This cultural center in Nouméa combines an art center, a museum, performance spaces, a media library and a park amid pines and mangroves to share the customs and traditions of the Kanak tribe.
What is the Tjibaou Cultural Center?
This historic fort hosts a museum and a cactus conservatory supported by the Exotic Garden of Monaco.
What is Fort Napoleon?
From 1963 to 1982, 1,630 children from La Réunion were relocated to rural France, particularly to this sparsely populated département, supposedly for education and better work opportunities, but many were abused or disadvantaged. They were called Children of this.
What is Creuse?