File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

File: Egg dyr. jpg | Easter eggs from France

File: Mie Baguette de tradition France. jpg | Baguette often accompanies the meal

File: Belon oysters at Belon river, France. jpg | Belon oysters

File: Porcelain kiln with furnaces á alandier. jpg | A two-story porcelain kiln with furnaces á alandier in Sèvres, France circa 1880

File: St quentin Basilica 003. JPG | Basilica of St-Quentin, Aisne, France

File: AmienCathedralLabyrinth. JPG | Cathedral of Amiens, France

File: Marie Antoinette Adult9. jpg | Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France wearing a pearl necklace and earrings.

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 112. jpg | Portrait of Claude Monet, 1875, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris, France

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 019. jpg | Dance in the City, 1882 – 1883, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris, France

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir-Torse, effet de soleil. jpg | Nude In The Sun, 1875, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris, France

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir-Baigneuse assise s ' essuyant une jambe. jpg | Seated Bather Drying Her Leg, 1914, Musée de l ' Orangerie, Paris, France

File: Hospices de beaune toit. jpg | The polychrome tiles of the Hospices de Beaune, France.

File: Public garden in Tours, France. jpg |< center > Jardin de la Préfecture ( central park ).

File: Giant Cypress tree in Tours, France. jpg |< center > Giant Cedar tree.

File: Tudor buildings in Tours, France. jpg |< center > Place Plumereau, Medieval buildings.

File: Rooftops of Tours, France. jpg |< center > Slate rooves of Tours.

File: Battle of Ravenna ( 1512 ). JPG | The Battle of Ravenna, in which France defeated the Spaniards on Easter Sunday in 1512

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

File: Blason Raon aux bois. svg | Arms of Raon-aux-Bois, France

File: France arc et senas saline royal main building 1. jpg | Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

File: Singer_Mode_d_emploi_1900. jpg | A Singer user book in France 1900.

File: Blason_ville_fr_SaintLo_ ( Manche ). svg |< center > Arms of Saint-Lô, France

File: Bernhardts_Chateau_Near_Conde. jpg | Bernhardt's Chateau near Conde, France.

File: Front View of Thorn Reliquary. jpg | Room 45-Holy Thorn Reliquary, Paris, c. AD 1390s

File: Claude Monet 024. jpg | Women in a Garden, 1866 – 1867, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris.

File: Claude Monet-Train in the Snow. jpg | Train in the Snow, 1875, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

File: Claude Monet Nympheas 1915 Musee Marmottan Paris. jpg | Nympheas, 1915, Musée Marmottan Monet

File: Jacques-Louis David-Andromache Mourning Hector. JPG | Andromache mourns Hector ( 1783 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Helene Paris David. jpg | Paris and Helen ( 1788 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris ( detail )

File: David Brutus. jpg | The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons ( 1789 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Portrait of Madame de Verninac, ( 1798 – 1799 ), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Madame Récamier painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800. jpg | Madame Récamier ( 1800 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Jacques-Louis_David_018. jpg | Portrait of Pope Pius VII ( 1805 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Jacques-Louis_David_006. jpg | The Coronation of Napoleon, ( 1806 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Léonidas aux Thermopyles ( Jacques-Louis David ). PNG | Leonidas at Thermopylae ( 1814 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Champignons Agaricus. jpg | Champignon de Paris

File: Charles Le Brun-Entry of Alexander into Babylon. JPG | Charles Le Brun, 1664, Entry of Alexander into Babylon, Louvre, Paris

File: David-The Death of Socrates. jpg | Jacques-Louis David, 1787, The Death of Socrates, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

File: Delacroix sardanapalus 1828 950px. jpg | Eugene Delacroix, 1827, Death of Sardanapalus, Louvre, Paris

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 012. jpg | Edgar Degas, L ' Absinthe, 1876, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris

File: Gustave Caillebotte-La Place de l ' Europe, temps de pluie. jpg | Gustave Caillebotte, ( 1848 – 1894 ), Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877.

File: Lucas Cranach the Elder-Judgment of Paris. jpg | Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530

File: Joseph Hauber Das Urteil d Paris ( 1 ). jpg | Joseph Hauber, c. 1819

File: Claude Lorrain ( 1600-1682 ), The Judgment of Paris, 1645-1646, oil on canvas.

File: The Judgement of Paris. jpg | Hendrick van Balen the Elder, c. 1599

File: Anselm Feuerbach-Das Urteil des Paris. jpg | Anselm Feuerbach, c. 1869-1870