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The French Declaration of Human Rights (Declaration des Droits de l'Homme) inspired the American Constitution's Bill of Rights
Jefferson served as America's minister to France.
Monticello incorporates many aspects of French architecture.

Pierre Charles L'Enfant (2 August 1754; Paris, France – 14 June 1825; Prince George's County, Maryland) was a French-born American architect and urban planner. L'Enfant designed the first street plan for the Federal City in the United States, now known as Washington, D.C.
Van Loo, Toulouse Lautrec, Modigliani, Dufy, Renoir, Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, or Nietzsche, Aragon, Tolstoï, and musicians such as Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet were all artistically inspired by Nice.
Paris is only six by seven miles.
The Italian flag is inspired by the French flag introduced during Napoleon's 1797 invasion of the peninsula.
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century.
France has the world's greatest number of Nobel Prize winners in literature (12).
France is home of many well known artists.
Paris is considered the capital of the world in terms of quality of life (Healey and Baker 1991).
60 million tourists visit France every year. Are you one of them?