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DYK 1
- ...that Hortus deliciarum (pictured) was a medieval illuminated encyclopedia created to teach about everything, including the torments of hell?
- ...that the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
- ...that the book Passionate Minds is a novel about Voltaire and his mistress Émilie du Châtelet?
DYK 2
- ...that art dealer Jacques Seligmann & Company sold Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (pictured) to the Museum of Modern Art for $24,000 in 1937?
- ...that the pancakes called galettes (pictured) originated in Upper Brittany and crêpes in Lower Brittany?
- ...that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter?
DYK 3
- ...that painter Henri-Edmond Cross (self-portrait pictured) changed his name twice, each time to avoid confusion with a similarly named artist?
- ...that André Derain painted Mountains at Collioure alongside Henri Matisse at the fishing port of Collioure?
- ...that according to legend, a spring came up on all three spots where the severed head of Catholic martyr Saint Baudilus bounced after his martyrdom in Nîmes?
DYK 4
- ...that a giant elephant (engraving pictured) in Paris was protected by a man living in one of its legs?
- ...that the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930?
- ...that the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
DYK 5
- ...that pioneering aeroplane pilot and racing driver Henri Rougier won the inaugural Monte Carlo Rally in his Turcat-Méry car (pictured)?
- ...that Farewell, My Queen, a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival?
- ...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
DYK 6
- ...that the construction of Basilica Cathedral St. Peter and St. Patern, Vannes (pictured) took seven centuries and featured styles from Romanesque to Neo Gothic?
- ...that the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
- ...that Claude Aveline met Jean Vigo in a health clinic and 28 years later founded an award in his honor?
DYK 7
- ...that French manufacturer Vétra built trolleybuses (example pictured) for transit systems in 12 countries, on three continents?
- ...that Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the "father of the abortion pill", first described the concept of neurosteroids?
- ...that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre-Dame de Paris?
DYK 8
- ...that 1911 journal Der yidisher arbeyter (The Jewish Worker) (pictured) was the first Yiddish labour journal published in France?
- ...that the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
- ...that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines, and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?
DYK 9
- ...that Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny (pictured) became directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1751 at only 24 years of age as a result of the influence of his older sister, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour, on King Louis XV of France?
- ...that Justin Godart was one of only 80 French parliamentarians who voted against dissolving the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France in July 1940?
- ...that "La Vie en Rose" is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf?
DYK 10
- ...that the French occupation of Tunisia in 1881 (troops pictured) received the approval of both Great Britain and Germany, but that Italy protested in vain?
- ...that the image of Benjamin Franklin familiar on the U.S. hundred dollar bill was painted by the French painter Joseph Duplessis?
- ...that Saint Bernadette of Lourdes entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers named for the seventh-century Saint Gildard, not the sixth-century Saint Gildard?
DYK 11
- ...that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne (detail of illustration pictured) told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
- ...that Lycée Pierre-Corneille was founded in 1593 to educate children "in accordance with the purest doctrinal principles of Roman Catholicism"?
- ...that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, but only ever contained two monumental tombs?
DYK 12
- ...that although the Montmartre funicular (pictured) is considered part of the Paris Métro, it requires a separate ticket?
- ...that the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel, flooding Calais and Boulogne?
- ...that sparkling wine was produced in the Languedoc wine region of Limoux long before it was produced in Champagne?
DYK 13
- ...that Ladurée, which sells 15,000 macarons (pictured) per day, opened a tea house in its Parisian pastry shop in the 1930s, to cater for society ladies, who at that time were not admitted to cafés?
- ...that Princess Louise-Marie of France, the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
- ...that the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre, which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa?
DYK 14
- ...that Pierre-François Palloy (pictured) began the demolition of the Bastille on the same day that it was attacked?
- ...that the Printemps department store on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris is home to a Jugendstil stained glass cupola?
- ...that Farewell, My Queen, a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival?
DYK 15
- ...that a camel is led through the streets of Béziers (pictured), France on the feast day of Saint Aphrodisius, a semi-legendary saint said to have come from Egypt?
- ...that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
- ...that Paul Koechlin, winner of the first automobile race ever, the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race, was a second cousin to Maurice Koechlin, the structural engineer of the Eiffel Tower?
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