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DOM-TOMS

Metropolitan Departments -  Départements d'Outre-Mer [ DOM ]

  Guadeloupe -  Caribbean
  French Guyana  - South America  - capital city Cayenne
  Martinique -  Caribbean
  Réunion  - Indian Ocean

Each of the four DOMs constitutes also a Overseas Region.

  Amsterdam
  Bassas da India
  Clipperton
  Crozet
  Europa
  French Polynesia with Bora, Bora; Raietea and Maupiti
Luxury travel
  Juan de Nova
  Kerguelen
  Les Glorieuses
  Miquelon -  25 km from the coast of New Foundland
  New-Caledonia  - local: Kanaken
  St Barthelemy  - Caribbean
  St Martin  - Caribbean  - with capital city Marigot
  St Pierre  - 25 km from the coast of New Foundland
  Tromelin
  Wallis-et-Futuna

Cuisine  - French Cooking

  French Food and Cook -  authentic French cuisine
Menus and recipes, Tips and Tools,  Table setting, Practice your French [ recipes in French ]
  Meilleur du Chef [ french & english ]
Hors-d'Œuvres, Starters,  Fish, Meat,  Vegetables, Desserts,  Other dishes, Bases, Sauces,  Extras, Diet Dishes
  Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette  Bertholle and Simone Beck
684 pages; Black and White Sketches, no Photography 
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2001

History  - French History

In ancient times France was part of the Celtic territory known as Gaul or Gallia. Its present name is derived from the Latin Francia, meaning "country of the Franks," a Germanic people who conquered the area during the 5th century, at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It became a separate country in the 9th century ......

  French history timeline

Music & Culture

  Discover France  - French Music
The earliest French influence on Western music is found in the plainsong of the Christian Church. It is believed that Gregorian chant as it is known today is an 8th- or 9th-century Gallican interpretation of Roman chant, but it is difficult to distinguish the Gallican ornamentation from its Roman basis. It has been suggested that the basic idea of the trope (an interpolation in a preexistent chant) is Gallican and that the surviving body of medieval tropes and sequences had a French influence ........
  Chanter -  French Music Database
Toute la chanson francophone - Aznavour à Zebda, des centaines d'artistes et de concerts, achat de CD, sources de MP3.
Artists, Concerts,  Charts, Shopping,  MP3/MIDI Files, Radio, Lyrics & Music,  Forum, and more

Web Portal / French Search Engine / Directory

  Discover France -  webring France
Explore French arts & culture, cuisine, history, language, literature, monuments, museums, shopping, sightseeing, wines, etc. Dozens of topics, chapters on Paris, 21 provinces, overseas territories, former French colonies
  Google.fr -  French Search Engine
  Pages Jaunes -  French Yellow Pages
  Viafrance -  all events in France
Furthermore regional information and intersting links within the French regions.
  Voila -  this search engine is very popular among French native speakers [ 2004 ].


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