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FRANCE

LA FRANCE

About Me


BIENVENUE EN FRANCE
WELCOME IN FRANCE
HERE YOU'LL DISCOVER FRENCH MUSIC, LANDSCAPES, COMPANIES and few statistics...
I was born in 486 thanks to Mr Clovis.
My shape changed a lot through centuries...I even used to be an empire but now I'm just a nice country spread over the world ( Continental France - Corse - St Pierre et Miquelon - St Martin - Guadeloupe - St Barthelemy - Martinique - Guyane - Mayotte - Reunion - St Paul Amsterdam - Crozet - Kerguelen - Terre Adelie - Nouvelle Calédonie - Wallis - Futuna - Polynésie ).
For the third year running in the INTERNATIONAL LIVING annual Quality of Life Index, France is n°1 ! The four following countries are : Switzerland / USA / Luxembourg / Germany. Alors soyons heureux d'être français! ;)
64 million people live on my territory.
My biggest city is Paris.
People say that when god created me, he decided to create the most beautiful country of the world...but as it was unfair for the others, than he created french people! :)
Many people come to visit me : 78 million people each year which makes me the number one touristic country of the world.
My best and most famous musicians create Electronic music and Rap, RnB, Hip Hop...
They died for me. Thank you Americans and all the others who helped me.
If you take the time to watch this you'll feel like you should do something. If you have the chance to understand french, then you'll do something.
wisdom is the key
I AM - LA FIN DE LEUR MONDE ( THE END OF THEIR WORLD )
Iam - La Fin de leur monde
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FRENCH "MUSIQUE"
DISIZ LA PESTE - Jeune de Banlieue
disiz la peste - jeune de banlieue
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KENY ARKANA - Victoria
Keny arkana - victoria
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MAC TYER - Petit frère, petite soeur
Mac Tyer - Petit Frère, Petite Soeur
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DAMIEN - The Frogs
NADIYA - Amies ennemies ( CHOPIN )
Nadiya - Amies ennemies
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PECKENIO - Dans mon Monde
peckenio dans mon monde
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DAVID VANDETTA
David Vendetta - Break 4 Love
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DAVID GUETTA
WALLEN - Celle qui dit non
Wallen - Celle qui dit non -_
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JUSTICE - Never be alone
NAJOUA BELYZEL - Gabriel
YANN TIERSEN - La Valse d'Amélie
ELODIE FREGE - La Ceinture
Elodie Frege la ceinture
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LA CAUTION - Thé à la menthe
La Caution - Thé à la menthe
Uploaded by Maximum
SUPERBUS - Ca mousse
KYO - Je cours
EMILIE SIMON - Fleur de saison
NOIR DESIR - Le vent
Noir Désir Le Vent Nous Portera
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MC SOLAAR - La vie est belle
FRANCOISE HARDY - Mon amie la rose
SERGE GAINSBOURG - La ballade de Mélodie Nelson
ROUDOUDOU - Peace and tranquility to earth
MIRWAIS - Naïve song
GEORGES BRASSENS - Chanson pour l'Auvergnat
PARIS COMBO - Living room
PATRICK HERNANDEZ - Born to be alive
BOB SINCLAR - Rock this party
VITALIC - La rock 01
CASSIUS - Toop toop
DAFT PUNK - Technologic
MISS KITTIN & THE HACKER - 1982
MODJO - Lady
DIAM'S - La boulette
MR OIZO - Flat beat
SAINT GERMAIN - So flute
MARTIN SOLVEIG - Jealousy
EDITH PIAF - La vie en rose
PARIS 2006 - Techno Parade

My Interests



Here are few information about me you may be interested about :

My Monney : $2.515 trillion (2007) GDP(official exchange rate)

GDP per capita : $33,800 (2007)

The money of my family ( The European Union ) : $16.37 trillion (2007) GDP(official exchange rate)

Life expectency at birth :
Male : 77.35 years
Female : 84 years

Religions :
Roman Catholic : 83%-88%
Protestant 2%
Jewish 1%
Muslim 5%-10%
unaffiliated 4%

AMONG THE 100 BIGGEST COMPANIES OF THE WORLD, 11 ARE FRENCH (source Fortune 2006) :

TOTAL

AXA

CREDIT AGRICOLE

CARREFOUR

BNP PARIBAS

PEUGEOT-CIRTOEN

SOCIETE GENERALE

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE

FRANCE TELECOM

SUEZ

RENAULT

SOME OTHER FRENCH COMPANIES :

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I'd like to meet:



FRENCH INVENTIONS
1625 - La transfusion sanguine – Blood transfusion - Jean-Baptiste Denys
1640 - L'Omnibus tiré par des chevaux ( Bus ) – Bus carried by hourses
1642 – La machine à calculer – Calculator - Blaise Pascal
1690 – Moteur cylindrique à Vapeur - Steam cylindrical engine
1770 – Automobile - Joseph Cugnot
1783 – Le bateau à Vapeur – Steam boat - Claude Fr. Jouffroy d'Abbans
1792 – Le Crayon - Pencil
1794 – La télégraphie aérienne – Semaphore visual telegraph - Claude Chappe
1797 - Le parachute
1810 – Les conserves alimentaires – Canned foods - Nicolas Appert
1810 – Machine à filer le lin - Machine to spin the linen - Philippe de Girard
1816 – La photographie – Photography - Nicéphore Niépce
1819 – Le stéthoscope – Stetoscop - Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec
1822 – Le Ciment – Concrete - Louis Vicat
1829 – Le système Braille – Braille system (for blinds) - Louis Braille
1830 – Le machine à coudre – Sawing machine - Barthélemy Thimonnier
1839 – Le panneau solaire – Solar panel
1840 – La machine à couper le papier ( Massicot) – Machine to cut paper - Guillaume Massiquot
1849 – Le béton armé - The reinforced concrete - Joseph Monier
1852 – Le Gyroscope - Gyroscope - Léon Foucault
1860 – Le moteur à Gaz – Gaz engin - Étienne Lenoir
1863 – Le cola (Vin Mariani ) – The Cola - Angelo Mariani
1868 – L’hydroélectricité - Hydroelectricity
1872 - Le monorail – The monorail
1883 – La moto - Motorcycle
1884 - La soie artificielle (nitrocellulose) – Artificial silk - Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet
1885 – Le vaccin (contre la rage) – The vaccine - Louis Pasteur
1895 – Le cinéma (projecteur) et la photographie en couleur – Cinema and colored photography - Auguste et Louis Lumière
1895 – Le pneu de voiture démontable - The knockdown tire - Édouard Michelin
1896 – Découverte de la radioactivité – Discovery of radioactivity – Antoine Henri Becquerel
1907 – La montre à bracelet, en collaboration avec la Suisse - Watch with bracelet
1907 – Bélinographe (FAX) – Belinograph – Edouard Belin
1911 – Le tube au néon – Neon light - Georges Claude
1912 – Technique de suture des vaisseaux sanguins (nécessaire à toute transplantation) Suture of blood vessels – Alexis Carrel
1915 – Le sonar – Sonar
1921 – Vaccin antituberculeux (BCG) – Vaccin against tuberculosis - Albert Calmette et Camille Guérin
1930 – Coronographe (pour observer la couronne solaire) (to study the sun crown) – Bernard Lyot
1934 – Radioactivité artificielle – Artificial Radioactivity - Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie
1949 – L’avion à Sato-réacteur – Statoreactor plane - René Leduc
1953 – Le procédé de fabrication industrielle des stylos à bille (BIC) – Industrial ball-pen (BIC) - Marcel Bich
1954 – Vaccin contre la Poliomélithe – Pliomelith Vaccine - Pierre Lépine & Jonas Edward Salk (USA)
1956 - Procédé SECAM de télévision couleur breveté – SECAM color process for TV – Henri de France
1958 – Découverte des groupes leucocytaires HLA définissant le groupe tissulaire des individus, responsable du rejet - Jean Dausset et Jean Bernard
1963 to 1969 - Mise au point de nombreux détecteurs de particules – Detectors of particles – Georges Charpak
1974 – La carte à puce – Crédit card (ship) - Roland Moreno
1975 – Vaccin contre l’Hépatite B – Hepatitis B Vaccine – Philippe Maupas
1979 – Culture in vivo des Lymphocytes T
1985 - Vaccin contre la Leishmaniose – L.Monjour
1981 – Le TGV – High Speed Train
1983 – Identification du virus du SIDA (VIH-1) – Identification of AIDS virus ( HIV-1 )
1985 – Identification du virus du SIDA (VIH-2) – Identification of AIDS virus ( HIV-2 )
1987 – Création du test de dépistage du SIDA – Creation of testing for AIDS
1987 - Vaccin contre la bilharziose – A.Capron
1988 – Pilule Abortive RU486 – Abortive pill RU486 - Étienne-Émile Beaulieu
90’s - ISO Mpeg1 - Layer III ( MP3) - Yves-François Dehéry – TDF
1998 – Baladeur MP3 avec disque dur – MP3 player with hard disc - ARCHOS
Baladeur Vidéo avec disque dur – Video player with hard disc – ARCHOS
1998 – 1ère Greffe de la Main + avant bras – 1st Hand transplant - Jean-Michel Dubernard et Earl Owen
2005 – 1ère Allogreffe partielle du visage – 1st Partial face transplant - Jean-Michel Dubernard

Music:

Bob Sinclar / Serge Gainsbourg / MC Solaar / Brassens / David Guetta / Daft Punk / Air / France Gall / Françoise Hardy / Olivia Ruiz / Edith Piaf / La Caution / SNIPER / Martin Solveig / Disiz la peste / I AM / Laurent Garnier / Diam's / Bumcello...I'll take the time to tell you the others later.
Compositeurs : Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin, Pierre Boulez, Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Henri Dutilleux, Henri Tomasi, André Jolivet, Charles Koechlin, Francis Poulenc, Déodat de Séverac, Henri Duparc, Adolphe Adam, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey, Georges Auric, François-Joseph Gossec, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Paul Dukas, Nadia Boulanger, Georges Delerue, Jacques Offenbach, Erik Satie, Roger Boutry, Ida Gotkovsky, Michel Legrand, Maurice Jarre, Delibes, etc.

Movies:

First of all I have to tell you that cinema was born on my territory the 13th of february 1895 thanks to Les Frères Lumière. ;)...

Europa Corp
Gaumont
Pathé.......

Television:

TV 5 / France 24 / France 2 / France 3 / France 4 / France 5 / France 0 / Canal + / ARTE / M6 / TF1 / LCI / Ushuaïa TV / Histoire / NRJ 12 / TF6 / Paris Première / Pink TV / Euronews France / Fashion TV...and many many more.

Books:

Pffff...so many...L'encyclopédie Universelle ( universalis ) Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Céline, Hugo, Weber, Houellebecq...please feel free to complete. ;)

Heroes:

Astérix et obélix / Marianne / Jeanne d'Arc / Vercingétorix / De Gaulle / Bernard Kouchner / Pasteur / Marie Curie / Les frères lumière...please feel free to complete. ;) ..