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Exploring French Culture and History

This quiz explores various aspects of French culture, history, and its influence on the world, testing your knowledge on significant events, figures, and concepts related to France.

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1 In Europe large numbers of Huguenots are known to have settled in the United Kingdom, in Protestant areas of Germany (especially the city of ________), and in the Netherlands.

2 This republican conception of the French nation-state has been challenged since the 1980s by the Front National 's nationalist ________ of La France aux Français ("France to the French") or Les Français d'abord ("French first").

3 In ________, a sizeable population can trace its ancestry to France, which was the second largest European contributor, after Spain.

4 Therefore, it is not a synonym of "________", as a foreigner may be born in France.

5 While the UK and Ireland did not impose restrictions, France put in place controls to curb Central and ________ migration.

6 Abroad, the ________ is spoken in many different countries — in particular the former French colonies.

7 Over the next five centuries the two cultures intermingled, creating a hybridized ________.

8 The Vikings eventually intermarried with the local people, converting to ________ in the process.

9 Renan's non-essentialist definition, which forms the basis of the French Republic, is diametrically opposed to the German ethnic conception of a nation, first formulated by ________.

10 ________, Dutch painter

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Family Moving Day was the last entry in Beechwood Bunny Tales, a series of children's books written by French author Geneviève Huriet, to be translated into English.
  • Madeline La Framboise, a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island.
  • La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.
  • as a child French executive pastry chef Florian Bellanger was allergic to chocolate, but now claims it is his favorite ingredient.
  • the Brocard points, the Brocard circle and the Brocard triangle are named after French geometer Henri Brocard, who spent most of his life studying meteorology with no notable original contributions to the subject.
  • the model for the doctor in William Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress was the often satirized French physician John Misaubin.
  • the idea for the Red Scapular of the Passion (pictured) approved by Pope Pius IX is said to have been given to a French nun by visions of Jesus and Mary in 1846.
  • the Prix Blumenthal was a prize of 20,000 francs awarded to up-and-coming French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.
  • Augustin de Beaulieu was a French general who led an expedition to Aceh in the East Indies in 1619–22.
  • French-born artist Jan Piotr Norblin is famous in Poland for illustrating many important historical moments of the last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and is considered one of the most important painters of the Polish Enlightenment.
  • French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts.
  • Annie Fargé, who played a scatterbrained French wife to an American architect in the 1960 CBS sitcom Angel, was described by Time as "easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy" though the series folded after one season.
  • 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits.
  • French geometer Émile Lemoine proposed a system of five operations to measure the "complexity" of compass and straightedge constructions.
  • French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France, that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive.
  • French adventurer Marie-Charles David de Mayréna was supposed to negotiate treaties with the local people in an 1888 expedition to present-day Vietnam, but instead formed a new Kingdom of Sedang with himself as the king.
  • French track and field athlete Teddy Tamgho (pictured) became the third best triple jumper of all-time three days before his 21st birthday.
  • 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities.
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