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France

  • Population: 60.7 million (UN, 2005)
  • Capital: Paris
  • Area: 543,965 sq km (210,026 sq miles)
  • Major language: French
  • Major religion: Christianity
  • Life expectancy: 76 years (men), 83 years (women) (UN)
  • Monetary unit: 1 Euro = 100 cents

Road Junky has 5 France articles. Scroll down to view.

Asterix, French Comic Hero

The poor old French. Once the dominant world culture with their own empire and the aristocrats of Russia taking French lessons to sound sophisticated at their salon parties, now their ...

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Dating French Girls and Guys

Oh la la, French maids, French Kissing, Soisante-neuf and the well-known aphrodisiac power of garlic… the French must be thoroughly sick of all the cliches. How the French got the ...

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Hitchhiking France Travel

Busking in the streets in Biarritz an Algerian and a Frenchman came along and threw me a few coins. In a mixture of broken French and English they laughed to ...

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Seaside France Travel Story

Seaboard towns the world over have something slightly seedy about them, in Greece as in Jersey. Even if ships no longer sail in and out of their bustling ports carrying ...

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Hitchhiking from England to France

Before I hitchhiked to India with no money, I made a stab at getting to Morocco on the same terms. I headed out of Brighton in the middle of ...

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