Facts about France

Eiffel Tower was built specifically for the World Exhibition in 1889 and served as its entrance arch. According to the plan it should have been dismantled in 20 years. Soon, however, the era of the radio, thanks to the installation of antennas and radio-telegraph Eiffel Tower was saved. Queen of France, Marie Antoinette is credited with the phrase "let them eat cake," she allegedly said, after learning that the peasants are starving. But for the first time this phrase wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau before the birth of Marie-Antoinette. Apparently, it said some other queen or princess, but who exactly, no single answer. When someone leaves without saying goodbye, we use the term "left in English." Although originally it was thought up by the English idiom, and it sounded like 'to take French leave' («leave in French"). It appeared during the Seven Years' War in the 18th century in mockery of French soldiers run away from the location of the part. At the same time the French have copied this expression, but against the British, and in this form it was fixed in the Russian language. When Alexander Dumas wrote "The Three Musketeers" in the format of the show in one of the newspapers, the contract with the publisher has been stipulated linage manuscript. To increase the fee Dumas came up with a servant by the name of Athos Grimaud, who spoke and answered all the questions only in monosyllables, in most cases, "yes" or "no." Continuation of the book titled "Twenty Years Later" is already paid for-word, and Grimaud was a bit more talkative. The man who cut off his head, still in pain for a few seconds, even when using a guillotine. In 1905 in France, an experiment was conducted when the doctor a few seconds after cutting off the head of another man called the prisoner's name. In response to face up the eyelids, the pupils focused on the doctor, and then his eyes closed again. The inventor of champagne many consider the French monk Pierre Perignon House, but this is far from the truth. He has developed many techniques that are now used by manufacturers of champagne in the manufacturing process of the initial fault, but the bubbles in the wine is considered a sign of marriage. A key role in the promotion of wine bubbling played by the British. They imported wines from the Champagne region, and then poured out of their barrels into bottles with cork cork (what the French did not know). Following the resumption of the process of fermentation in the bottles began to form carbon dioxide, and wine in open bottles of bubbles that very much English. In 1974, Egyptologists have discovered that the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II quickly deteriorates. It was decided to immediately take her plane to France for examination, for which a modern Egyptian mummies have issued a passport, and in the "occupation" wrote "King (deceased)." In Paris, the mummy was met with all military honors, relying kings. In 1795, the French army conducted a unique operation - a cavalry attack on the enemy fleet. During the military operations in the Netherlands, the French noticed that before standing on the roads Dutch ships can be reached on the ice because of the unusually cold winter. Develop a plan for the assault was carried out by one hussar regiment, seized 14 ships of the line and several merchant ships without firing a shot. Professor of anatomy Guillotin was an opponent of the death penalty. However, because of its repeal it was not in his power, he advocated a more "humane" method of execution than common when burning at the stake or quartering. The car almost did not hurt at the execution, finally constructed the other person, but the name of the "guillotine" she got it in honor of Guillotin. Despite the common myth, Guillotin does not come under the guillotine himself, and died of old age. After that, his family members asked the government to change the name of the guillotine. Having been refused, the family changed their surname. French singer Edith Piaf during the occupation acted in POW camps in Germany, after which photographed for memory with them and the German officers. Then in Paris face cut and pasted prisoners in false documents. Piaf went to camp with repeated visits and smuggling of these passports, which some prisoners managed to escape. When the French revolutionary mob captured the Bastille, there is detained only 7 people. The French writer and humorist Alphonse Allais a quarter century to Kazimir Malevich wrote black square - now called the "Battle of the Negro in a cave deep in the night." He also nearly seventy years anticipated minimalist piece of music from one of silence "4'33" "John Cage their same work" Funeral March for the funeral of the great blind. " In contemporary French spelling of the word is found, double "vodka»: wodka - and for the Polish vodka - for the Russian.

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