Fun facts about France

1. Frances highest peak is Mont Blanc at 15,771 feet (4,807 m) high.
2. With at least 75 million foreign tourists per year, France is the most visited country in the world
3. The French government gives medals to citizens who have successfully raised several children with dignity
4. There is only one stop sign in the entire French city of Paris.
5. Louis XIX was king of France for just 20 minutes
6. French toast was originally called pain perdu (lost bread),
7. Crayola is a French word that means oily chalk.
8. The French invented the first digital calculator, the hot air balloon, the parachute, Braille, margarine and Grand Prix racing
9. With the exception of two world-war induced intervals, the Tour de France has never missed a year.
10. rench journalist and cyclist Henri Desgranges came up with the Tour de France in 1903 as a means of promoting his sports newspaper
11. French postage stamps were introduced in 1849 with the first definitive stamp showing Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.
12. French is the official language of many countries including: Switzerland, Canada, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Monaco, Congo and Niger.
13. The word salut means both hello and goodbye
14. French was the official language of England for over 300 years.
15. The French eat snails, frogs legs and horsemeat.
16. The number of times the French kiss each other as a form of greeting varies depending on region. In Corsica, the number of kisses can be as many as 5!
17. France has the highest number of ski resorts.
18. he French had an early version of the internet called Minitel
19. France created the first universal declaration of human rights in 1789.
20. Nicknamed city of lights lights actually refers to the number of intellectuals who live there.
21. The Eiffel Tower is painted every 7 years.
22. The Eiffel tower was originally intended to be dismantled and sold as scrap after its construction.
23. The most visited attraction in France isn't the Eiffel Tower (5.5 million), or the Louvre (5 million), but Disneyland Paris at 13 million people.
24. Napoleon was 5 foot 6.
25. French toast and french fries arent French inventions.
26. The croissant was actually invented in Austria.
27. There are about 2 new cook books that are published everyday in France.
28. Wearing a white wedding dress is a French tradition which began in 1499.
29. Lutetia was the former name of Paris. France was called Gaule
30. It's against the law to take pictures of police officers and police vehicles.
31. France has won the most Nobel Prizes for Literature than any other country in the world,
32. The whole Michelin star scoring system began by covering France.
33. France has more than 246 types of cheese
34. The Eiffel Tower was derided by critics at the time
35. The French invented Braille (well, Monsieur Braille did.