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CULTURAL LINKS FOR LEVEL 1, PART 1
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Me Voici (Here I Am)
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Miam! Miam! Vive le chocolat! |
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Female French names |
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Male French names |
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Weekly Top 50 Hits in France
Click on Palmares, Disques |
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Another top hits chart |
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Listen to current hits in France. |
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Rappeur MC Solaar |
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See the newest Peugeot models. |
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French Citroëns |
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What is a Twingo? |
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Levis in France |
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Short history of jeans |
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Another history of jeans |
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French holidays |
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Links about French holidays |
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Evian, a French mineral water. |
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All about Perrier. |
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Check out a map of France. Locate Paris. |
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Some basic facts about France |
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Links to information about France |
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Air France |
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A sneak peak of Paris in photos. |
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Concorde supersonic jet photos |
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Visit a mall in Lyon. |
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Visit a mall in Strasbourg. |
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Visit the Forum des Halles in Paris, a huge underground mall. |
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Paris train stations |
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The SNCF, French National Railroad |
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Coca Cola in France |
Avoir (To Have)
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Hippopotamus, a chain of French steak restaurants |
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Haribo, a brand of children's candy that is very popular that comes in cool shapes. |
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Nestlé in France |
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For chocoholics. |
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Recipe for Chocolate Truffles |
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A French chocolatier |
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Chocolate on-line... in the shape of flowers! |
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Find out more about Grey Poupon. |
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History of Maille Dijon mustard |
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The accordion, the instrument that is SO French. |
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Listen to the lively and legendary musette accordion music. |
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Fill up your porte-monnaie with euros. |
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All about mushrooms |
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Varieties of cabbages. |
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Savez-vous plantez les choux? |
Tu et vous (You, familiar, and you, formal)
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Les tee-shirts |
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Visit a jeans Web site. |
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Les smokings |
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A tie store |
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Family vocabulary |
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A server at a French café |
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Breeds of pooches - French style. |
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A famous French boulanger |
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The job of the boulanger |
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A boulanger gives a lesson in making bread. |
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Site of French pompiers |
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Children's site on fire and firemen. |
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The site of the Gendarmerie Nationale |
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Short test on Tu and Vous |
Conjuguez (Conjugate)
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Tons of verb conjugations |
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Many links to verb activities. |
La Cour de Louis XIV (The Court of Louis XIV)
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Visit Versailles Palace. |
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A large fountain at Versailles. |
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The grounds of Versailles. |
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Neat site with about Versailles fountains with an interactive map and photos. |
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Map of the gardens and fountains. |
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The young Louis XIV |
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The classic portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Click on the 4 topics. |
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A short background of the life of Louis XIV |
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The favorite chocolate recipe of Louis XIV. |
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The Queen, Marie-Thèrèse as a child |
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The Queen as an adult. |
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Dancing at Versailles |
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A day with the King |
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Cool Facts about Versailles |
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Amazing stats about Versailles |
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Royal Dining |
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René Descartes, mathematician and philosopher who said,"Je pense, donc je suis." |
Qui a volé le jambon? (Who stole the ham?)
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Baguettes |
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About French bread |
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A recipe for French bread |
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Types of sandwiches |
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Pomme de Pain... a French chain of sandwich restaurants |
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French cheese |
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All about mustard |
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Dijon mustard |
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The city of Dijon |
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Official site of the city of Dijon |
Monsieur Curieux (Mr. Curious)
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Le Village: Shop for French products. |
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More about interrogative words |
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French last names |
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The days of the week. |
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Crème brûlée |
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A French weather site |
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The STADE DE FRANCE (where France won the World Cup) |
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All about the Montreal Canadiens |
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A Paris train station - the Gare Saint Lazare |
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Clocks and telling time. |
Quoi Faire? (What to do? What can be done?)
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The forms of FAIRE in many tenses. |
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Make crêpes |
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Visit crêpeman! |
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Appliances for crêpe stands |
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Picture of a crêpe maker. You can find them in many houseware stores. |
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Making creme brûlée |
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Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit |
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Site of the French Soccer Federation |
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Site of the League of Professional Soccer |
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School subjects |
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Expressions with FAIRE |
On y va! (Let's go! Let's Get Going!)
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Printemps department store |
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The Paris Opéra |
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Take a look at various styles of the béret. |
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Find out which movies are playing in Paris. |
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French restaurant Web site links |
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Search for a Paris restaurant |
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Photos of the Alps |
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More photos of the French Alps |
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A site about skiing in France |
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Windsurfing photos |
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The TGV high speed train |
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“Purchase” TGV tickets |
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The 2 Paris airports |
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French brands (products, fashion, etc.) |
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You'll find the latest CD's here at la FNAC. |
Tout le monde s'amuse à Paris (Everyone Has Fun In Paris)
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A map of Paris. Click on PARIS. |
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Map of monuments in Paris |
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Click on “Scenes from Paris” |
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Paris Tourist Bureau - Tons of sites! |
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A Paris site with lots of information and photos. |
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Send electronic post cards of Paris. |
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The Tour Eiffel. Cool site. Click on "Jouez" and repaint the tower! |
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Send post cards from the Eiffel Tower. |
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The Berthillon ice cream store on Ile Saint-Louis. Look at the dozens of delicious flavors. |
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Photos of the Champs-Elysées |
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The Champs-Elysées at night. |
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The Paris Métro turned 100 years old. |
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All about riding on the Métro - tickets, the lines, a map, etc. |
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Visit the Louvre. See famous works of art! |
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Views of the Louvre |
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See the dazzling Pyramide at the Louvre |
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The artists' square on Montmartre, the Place du Tertre |
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The white-domed Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre |
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A view of the Jardin des Tuileries |
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A view of the Tuileries Gardens. |
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Take a bâteau-mouche ride on the Seine River. |
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A bateau-mouche. |
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Visit les Invalides, Napoleon's final resting place. |
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Sainte-Chapelle |
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French pastries...miam miam! |
Le Soleil sourit à tous(The Sun Smiles at Everyone)
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Lie on a beach in Martinique. |
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Visit Martinique. Click on "photo gallery" for lots of photos. |
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Visit Martinique's Office du Tourisme. |
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La Martinique |
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Tahiti |
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Photos of Polynesia |
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A chart of endings for masculine and feminine adjectives. |
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French Polynesia |
L'Impératif (The Imperative)
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A French comic book site. Boule et Bill, Lucky Luke, and even Garfield and Snoopy. |
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More about commands |
Le Blues du Negatif (The Negative Blues)
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More about the negative |
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A history of the bicycle |
Moi, je fais ma valise rose (I Pack My Pink Suitcase)
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A mobylette |
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More photos of mobylettes. |
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Omelette recipes |
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French omelette ingredients |
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Info about the sport of windsurfing |
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About windsurfing |
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Photos of windsurfing |
Interviewer Napoléon (To Interview Napoleon)
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About interrogative words |
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The famous pose |
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Napoleon on horseback |
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Portraits of Napoleon |
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Portrait of Josephine Beauharnais |
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A virtual visit of Fontainebleau |
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More photos of Fontainebleau |
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All about the metric system and conversions. |
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Le Code Civil |
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A test about Napoleon |
Savoir et connaître (To Know [facts and information] and To Know [people, experience, to do])
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Astérix |
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MC Solaar, official site |
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Site of MC Solaar...has lyrics to many of his songs |
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French cake recipes (Scroll down to DESSERTS. Then scroll down to GATEÂUX.) |
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Renoir's Photo |
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A Renoir painting: A Girl with a Watering Can |
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A Renoir painting: In the Meadow |
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A Renoir painting: Le Moulin de la Galette |
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A Renoir painting: On the Terrasse |
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A Renoir painting: Girls at the piano |
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The current population of Paris |
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A portrait of Louis XVI |
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History of the guillotine. |
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Locating the Rue de Rivoli.
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The Quartier Latin |
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The tragedy of Louis XVI |
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Jacques Cousteau, oceanographer |
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The number of steps on the Eiffel Tower. Look at "Nombre de marches." |
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French writer of "The Three Musketeers," Alexandre Dumas, père |
Find outdated links? please help keep this resource accurate by notifying: webmaster@soniccreations.com (This page updated
June 22, 2005
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