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Discovering French Culture and Language

Test your knowledge about the inhabitants and language of France with this engaging quiz.

#French #language #culture #geography #Romance languages

1 ________, inhabitants of France or people having family origins in France

2 ________, a Romance language originating in what is now northern France

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1943, avant-garde French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff.
  • the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today.
  • the assassination of Bazin, a French labor recruiter in Vietnam, was the first attack by the revolutionary Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang.
  • Vera Kholodnaya, the first Russian silent film star, was rumoured to have been poisoned by the French Ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a spy for the Bolsheviks.
  • historical demography, popularized by French historian Louis Henry, is the study of historical records leading to estimations of past human population.
  • Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public.
  • Ba Cut (meaning Short Third), a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight French colonialism.
  • Brutus de Villeroi was a French engineer who created the USS Alligator, the U.S. Navy's first submarine, in 1862.
  • French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine, 18 years after it was discovered.
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