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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?
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