Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

There is a total of of railway in France, mostly operated by SNCF, the French national railway company.

His first important commission was for two viaducts for the railway line between Lyons and Bordeaux, and the company also began to undertake work in other countries, including the church of San Marcos in Arica, Chile, which was an all-metal prefabricated building, manufactured in France and shipped to South America in pieces to be assembled on site.

The railway network links into Belgium, Germany and France.

Economic development was spurred in the late 19th century with a railway link to France.

* 1847 – 60: Paris – Saint-Germain railway between Bois de Vésinet and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France ()

* June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.

With this object in view he visited the colliery of Anzin in northern France, in February 1884 when a strike was on ; he visited La Beauce ( for La Terre ), Sedan, Ardennes ( for La Débâcle ) and travelled on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre ( when researching La Bête humaine ).

The railway fell into financial difficulties until in the First World War the War Department requisitioned all of its equipment for use in France.

Aside from being an important port and boarding point between France and England, it is at the nucleus of many major railway and highway networks and connected by road to Arras, Lens, Bethune and St. Omer.

In a precedent-setting case brought by Alain and his sister, SNCF, the national railway of France, was ordered on June 6, 2006, to pay almost $ 80, 000 in reparations for transporting members of their family to the Drancy deportation camp during World War II.

The Gare de Dunkerque railway station offers connections to Calais, Lille, Arras and Paris, and several regional destinations in France.

Statue of Roland, facade detail of the railway station, Metz, France

Gustave Eiffel built many such bridges in France in the 1860s, some surviving and still carrying railway traffic.

A former mason, railway laborer and former valet to the Prince of Aragon, Lucheni originally planned to kill the Duc d ' Orleans, but the Pretender to France ’ s throne had left Geneva earlier for the Valais.

Valence (; Occitan: Valença ) is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, c. 100 km south of Lyon on the railway to Marseilles.

The public transport workers in France, in particular the " Cheminots " ( employees of the national French railway company ) are often seen as the most radical " vanguard " of the French working class.

Jumbo was born in 1861 in the French Sudan, whence he was imported to France and kept in the old zoo Jardin des Plantes, near the railway station Gare d ' Austerlitz in Paris.

When in June 1947 it was time for competitors to travel to Llangollen a railway strike had started in France and there were serious doubt as to whether any overseas competitors would be able to arrive.

The town's status as both a port and a holiday resort led to economic success in the nineteenth century, with a railway line and a cross-channel ferry to Honfleur in France being introduced.

The exact quantity of CR. 42s delivered to Belgium before the German attack on 10 May is estimated by historians to be between 24 and 27, the last being transported to France and lost in the railway station at Amiens.

He married Mélanie Bazaine, daughter of Pierre-Dominique Bazaine ( mathematician and bridge and canal engineer ), and older sister of Pierre-Dominique ( Adolphe ) Bazaine ( railway engineer ) and Francois Achille Bazaine ( Marshal of France ).

* Chemins de Fer du Morbihan, a metre gauge railway network in Brittany, France

The history of rail transport in France dates from the first French railway in 1832 to present-day enterprises such as the AGV.

As the Allies advanced on France from three different directions, the French Emperor planned to attack and defeat each in turn.

From 1 November 1972, the daily Air France service between Orly and Tegel routed via Cologne in both directions to maintain the airline's internal German traffic rights from / to Berlin.

Prince Maximilian said of Lesueur " He had explored the country in many directions, was acquainted with everything remarkable, collected and prepared all interesting objects and had already sent considerable collections to France " ( Elliott & Johansen, p. 6 ) Indeed, Lesueur sent specimens of unique fish, animals and fossils, as well as artefacts he had dug from the Indian Mounds in New Harmony back to France, where they remain.

One year later, Chadwick crossed the English Channel yet again, from England to France ; this time, in 16 hours and 22 minutes, thus making her the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, and setting a record for the England-France journey.

On 13 October 1915 at Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, during a gas attack, when the trenches were full of men, Corporal Dawson exposed himself fearlessly to the enemy's fire in order to give directions to his sappers and to clear the infantry out of sections of the trench which were full of gas.

He landed at Auxi-le-Château, France, to get directions from the RAF personnel stationed there.

The Jews, who were driven out of England in 1290, out of France in 1394, and out of numerous districts of Germany, Italy, and the Balkan peninsula between 1350 and 1450, were scattered in all directions, and fled preferably to the new Slavic kingdoms, where for the time being other confessions were still tolerated.

This was during a transition of Paris – Brussels express services to a new TGV alignment, and initially included the trains Brabant, Île de France, Rubens and Watteau, all four serving the route in both directions.

You are still in France ''.

`` It's because we are in France '', he said, `` and know so few people.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

A suggestion from Louis De Broglie, a physicist in France, showed us that these electrons are not point particles but waves.

In France, novel approaches to the classic French plays are frequently attempted.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Most of the craft detailed are from the 1980s or earlier, but the navy acquired new boats from Spain and France in the 1990s.

Ski resorts such as Les Menuires in France are purpose built for the ski industry and winter tourism.

At present the Alps are one of the more popular tourist destinations in the world with many resorts such Oberstdorf, in Bavaria, Saalbach in Austria, Davos in Switzerland, Chamonix in France, and Cortina d ' Ampezzo in Italy recording more than a million annual visitors.

Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.

* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

In France, an " Antibiotics are not automatic " government campaign started in 2002 and led to a marked reduction of unnecessary antibacterial prescriptions, especially in children.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

In France, most claims against the national or local governments are handled by administrative courts, which use the Conseil d ' État ( Council of State ) as a court of last resort.

Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.

The geopolitical arrangements of the commune are slightly different from those typical of Corsica and France.

Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

There are three licensed mobile network operators ( MNO ) in Belgium, Proximus ( Belgacom ), Mobistar ( France Télécom ) and BASE ( KPN ) and numerous mobile virtual network operators ( MVNO ).