Switzerland / French Guiana / Andorra / Guadeloupe / France / Martinique / United Kingdom / China / India / Germany / Italy / Algeria / Tunisia / Belgium / United States / Vietnam / Morocco / Luxembourg / Spain / Monaco / France; Kyoto / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Employment Change / Political Endorsement / Voting Result / Diplomatic Relations / Environmental Issue / /
Facility
French port / Palace of Versailles / Library of Congress / Channel Tunnel / University of Paris / /
Holiday
Easter / All Saints' Day / Victory Day / Labor Day / Easter Monday / Assumption / New Year's Day / Veteran's Day / national holiday / Ascension Day / Bastille Day / Christmas Day / /
IndustryTerm
pledged greenhouse gas emission targets / public transportation / food / energy / energy consumption / wage systems / energy efficiency / manufacturing / oil tanker spills / electricity producers / manufacturing city / energy supplies / electricity generation / /
MedicalCondition
bubonic plague / chronic financial problems / /
MedicalTreatment
contraception / /
Movie
Dien Bien Phu / Reign of Terror / Joan of Arc / /
NaturalFeature
Atlantic Ocean / French Mediterranean coast / Corsica / Atlantic coast / North Sea / Rhine River / Rhine valley / English Channel / Indian Ocean / Alps / Seine / Rhône River delta / Rhine / Garonne / Bay of Biscay / Alpine / Mediterranean Sea / Loire / Pyrenees / /
Organization
French government / European Economic Community / National Front party / European parliament / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / European monetary union / European Union / National Assembly / Chirac government / Ministry of the Environment / Sarkozy / French Council for the Islamic Faith / Catholic Church / Doctors Without Borders / Congress / University of Paris / Nobel Prizewinning / French Environment and Energy Control Agency / De Gaulle’s government / National Front / /
Person
Bernard Kouchner / Henri Philippe / Henri Philippe Pétain / Lionel Jospin / Sun King / Helmut Kohl / Georges Pompidou / Duke William / François Fillon / Philip VI / Jean-Marie Le Pen / Henry IV / Nicolas Sarkozy / François Mitterrand / John Calvin / Gaullist Jacques Chirac / Charles de Gaulle / Edith Cresson / Jacques Chirac / Ségolène Royal / /
Prime Minister / wartime leader / president / Socialist prime minister / justice minister / Chancellor / General / minister of immigration and national identity / founder / King / Major / conservative and four-time minister / premier / Emperor / leader / Marshal / /
Product
Atlantic / Riviera / /
ProvinceOrState
Kosovo / British Columbia / California / /
Region
South Pacific / West Africa / Indian Ocean / Middle East / North Africa / New England / French West Africa / Western Europe / central France / Mediterranean / southern Europe / French Mediterranean coast / Caribbean / Far East / southern France / southwestern France / /
Library of Congress – Federal Research Division Country Profile: France, May 2007