Information on France

By Dhruv Mistry
 5 Facts About France
Famous People In France
 Nacho Cheese!
France is the one source
in the world that has over
500 different types of
cheeses!
 Money Doesn’t Grow On
Trees… Not Yet Anyway…
Everything is so
expensive in France
because of the fact that
they include the tax in
whatever you buy.
The Bigger They Are… The
Harder They Fall…
France is 4/5 the size of
Texas
 Tour De France and The
French Open
The Tour De France is the
best known road bicycle
race in the world.

The French Open is one

of the four Grand Slam
tennis tournaments.
 What?! A Pyramid Under
Ground?!
The Louvre is a pyramid
that once belonged to a
king and the Louvre had
a underground basement
that is filled with many
treasures.

Now the Louvre is now a

tourist attraction
 Antoine Lavoisier
(an-twan luh-vah-c-eh)
1743-1794

Known as the “Father of

Modern Chemistry”
Helped construct the
metric system
Found and termed both
oxygen and hydrogen
Made the Law of
Conservation of Mass
Said energy could not
be created nor
destroyed.
 Andre-Marie Ampere
(an-drA-marie- am-pear)
1775-1836

Regarded as one of the main

discoverers of
electromagnetism
The SI unit of
measurement of electric
current, the ampere
(commonly referred to as
the “amp”), is named
after him
 Gustave Eiffel
(goos-tahv I-fuhl)
1832-1923

Made the Eiffel Tower for

the World Fair in 1889
This marked the 100th
anniversary for the French
Revolution

Received the Legion of

Honour Medal in recognition

Designed framework of
Statue of Liberty
 Madame Marie Curie
(muh-rie-cury)
1867-1934

Did pioneering work in

radioactivity, and she invented
the x-ray.

Isolated two unknown

radioactive elements ,
polonium and radium
Received the Nobel Physics
Prize in 1903

Prepared a miniscule amount of

pure radium
Won her a second Nobel Prize