Physical Characteristics of France

Your goal: Be able to give examples of the physical characteristics of France.

Landforms

Rhine River

River valley separating France and GermanyNatural defensive borderFortress towns

Pyrenees Mountains

Mountains separating France and SpainNatural defensive border

Island of Corsica

Mediterranean IslandBirthplace of Napoleon

Bonaparte

Beaches at Normandy

Province on the North coast of France

Where the Allies invaded Europe in World War II

Human Characteristics of France

Your goal: Be able to give examples of the human characteristics of France.

History

Palace at Versailles

•Royal capital of France (1700s)•Peace conference after WWI (1919)

Ideas About Government

Montesquieu

Argued that all governments should have separation of powers

• Legislative• Executive• Judicial

1700s

Enlightenment thinker with the ideas:

• Church and state should be separate.

• People have the right to freedom of speech and religion.

Voltaire 1700s

Science

Louis Pasteur

Germ theoryPasteurization of

milk

1800s

Culture

Coco Chanel

Fashion designerAmbitious, innovative

1920s-1940s

Louvre Museum

•Opened 1793 during French Revolution•Confiscated church, noble & royal property•Art is now available to the people!

Eiffel Tower

•1050 feet tall

1800s

Arc de Triomph

•“Arch of Triumph”

1800s

Art

Claude Monet 1800s

Vincent van Gogh 1800s

Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec

1800s

Henri Matisse 1800s

Edouard Manet 1800s

Edgar Degas 1800s

Paul Cezanne 1800s

Auguste Rodin 1800s

The Thinker

Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1800s

Paul Gauguin 1800s

Food

Wine

World’s largest wine producer

Cheese

Over 300 types of cheese

This is Brie