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The best advocates for visiting France are the French themselves, convinced as they are that their way of life is best, and their country the most civilized on earth. The food and wine are justly celebrated, while French literature, art, cinema, and architecture can be both profound and provocative. France is a country that stimulates the intellect and gratifies the senses.

France belongs to both Northern and Southern Europe, encompassing regions ranging from Britany, with its Celtic maritime heritage and Germanic Alsace-Lorraine, to the Mediterranean sun belt and the peaks of Alps and Pyrenees. The capital, Paris, is the countries in chp in, with its intellectual excitement, intense tempo of life and notoriously brusque citizens.

Strangely, as life in France become more city based and industrialized, so the desire grows to safeguard the old, traditional ways and to value rural life. The idea of life in the country douceur de vivre (the good life), long tables set in the sun for the wine and anecdotes to flow-is as seductive as ever for residents and visitors alike. Nevertheless, the rural way of life has been changing. Where as in 1945 one person in three worked in farming, today it is one in 20.France’s main exports used to be luxury goods such as perfumes, champagne and Cognac. Today these have been overtaken by cars, telecommunications equipment and fighter aircraft. The French remain firmly committed to their roots, however, and often keep a place in the country for vacations or their retirement.