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  1. Complete the sentence about Académie Française with the correct year: The Académie was officially established in ______ by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
  2. Complete the sentence about Académie Française with the correct year: When Louis XVIII came to the throne in ______, each class regained the title of "Académie"; accordingly, the second class of the I…
  3. Complete the sentence about Occitan language with the correct year: Since September ______, the Parliament of Catalonia has considered Aranese Occitan to be the officially preferred language for use i…
  4. Complete the sentence about Breton language with the correct year: In ______, Bertrand Barère submitted his "report on the patois" to the Committee of Public Safety in which he said that "federalism a…
  5. Complete the sentence about Alsatian dialect with the correct year: Since ______, the constitution of the Fifth Republic states that French is the official language of the Republic.
  6. Complete the sentence about Alsatian dialect with the correct year: In ______ local French public schools began offering Alsatian immersion for the first time.
  7. Complete the sentence about French cuisine with the correct year: The Dauphin became King Charles V of France in ______, with Taillevent as his chief cook.
  8. Complete the sentence about Baguette with the correct year: In ______, the artisanal know-how and culture of baguette bread was inscribed to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
  9. Complete the sentence about Baguette with the correct year: In April ______, a competition called Le Grand Prix de la Baguette began in France to determine who made the best baguettes.
  10. Complete the sentence about Baguette with the correct year: Since ______, the city of Paris awards the Grand prix de la baguette de tradition française de la ville de Paris for the best baguette in th…
  11. Complete the sentence about Roquefort with the correct year: On 4 June ______, Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of the cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doin…
  12. Complete the sentence about Roquefort with the correct year: In ______, the cheese was the recipient of France's first Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée when regulations controlling its production and n…
  13. Complete the sentence about Champagne with the correct year: The oldest recorded sparkling wine is Blanquette de Limoux, which was invented by Benedictine monks in the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire, near Car…
  14. Complete the sentence about Champagne with the correct year: Merret presented a paper at the Royal Society, in which he detailed what is now called méthode traditionnelle, in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Champagne with the correct year: As early as ______, the poet Samuel Butler referred to "brisk champagne".
  16. Complete the sentence about Champagne with the correct year: In ______, Adolphe Jaquesson invented the muselet to prevent the corks from blowing out.
  17. Complete the sentence about Bordeaux wine with the correct year: Henry Plantagenet became King Henry II of England in ______, and within his so-called Angevin Empire Bordeaux developed a long-lived ex…
  18. Complete the sentence about Bordeaux wine with the correct year: The export of Bordeaux was interrupted by the Hundred Years' War outbreak between France and England in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Bordeaux wine with the correct year: By the end of the conflict in ______ France had repossessed the province, thus taking control of wine production in the region.
  20. Complete the sentence about Bordeaux wine with the correct year: In ______, the châteaux of Bordeaux were classified; this classification remains widely used today.
  21. Complete the sentence about Absinthe with the correct year: The medical use of wormwood dates back to ancient Egypt and is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus from around ______ BC.
  22. Complete the sentence about Crêpe with the correct year: In ______, she expanded to New York City, where she supplied crêpe cakes to popular chains Dean & DeLuca and Takashimaya through the company La…
  23. Complete the sentence about Macaron with the correct year: Macarons d'Amiens, made in Amiens, are small, round-shaped biscuit-type macarons made from almond paste, fruit and honey, which were first re…
  24. Complete the sentence about Crème brûlée with the correct year: The earliest known recipe of a dessert called crème brûlée appears in François Massialot's ______ cookbook Cuisinier royal et bourgeois…
  25. Complete the sentence about Crème brûlée with the correct year: The practice of browning dishes with a hot iron was already documented in La Varenne's Cuisinier françois, published in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Crème brûlée with the correct year: The name "burnt cream" was later used to refer to the dish in the ______ English translation of Massialot's Cuisinier royal et bourgeois…
  27. Complete the sentence about Crème brûlée with the correct year: In ______, he referred to a similar recipe as crême à l'Angloise, or 'English cream', which further cast doubt on its origins.
  28. Complete the sentence about Michelin Guide with the correct year: In ______, Michelin published an English-language translation of the guide to France.
  29. Complete the sentence about Michelin Guide with the correct year: Following the usage in Murray's Handbooks for Travellers and the Baedeker Guides, Michelin's guide began to award stars for superior r…
  30. Complete the sentence about Michelin Guide with the correct year: In ______, Michelin introduced a hierarchy of zero, one, two, and three stars for restaurants.
  31. Complete the sentence about Auguste Escoffier with the correct year: In ______, Escoffier and his wife moved to Monte Carlo, where Escoffier was employed by César Ritz, manager of the new Grand Hotel…
  32. Complete the sentence about Auguste Escoffier with the correct year: In ______, the Savoy board of directors began noticing company revenues were falling despite business increasing.
  33. Complete the sentence about Paul Bocuse with the correct year: Bocuse claimed that Henri Gault first used the term to describe food prepared by Bocuse and other top chefs for the maiden flight of the…
  34. Complete the sentence about Paris-Roubaix with the correct year: Since ______, the finish has for the most part taken place in the Roubaix Velodrome.
  35. Complete the sentence about Paris-Roubaix with the correct year: In February ______ they hit on the idea of holding a race from Paris to their track.
  36. Complete the sentence about 24 Hours of Le Mans with the correct year: The most recent running of the event, the 94th 24 Heures du Mans, ran from 13 to 14 June ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about French Open with the correct year: Until ______, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on grass.
  38. Complete the sentence about French Open with the correct year: In ______, the Championnat de France, which is commonly referred to in English as the "French Championships", began.
  39. Complete the sentence about France national football team with the correct year: France was one of the four European teams that participated in the first World Cup in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about France national football team with the correct year: Twenty-eight years later, the team led by Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine finished in third place at the ______ World Cu…
  41. Complete the sentence about France national football team with the correct year: After winning the ______ Nations League, they became the first, and so far, the only European national team to have won…
  42. Complete the sentence about 1998 FIFA World Cup with the correct year: The ______ FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams.
  43. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 12 July ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about 1998 FIFA World Cup with the correct year: France previously hosted the third edition of the World Cup in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 1984 with the correct year: The French bid was unanimously selected by the UEFA Executive Committee at a meeting on 10 December ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Pierre de Coubertin with the correct year: In ______, at the age of twenty, he visited England for the first time and studied the program of physical education instituted u…
  47. Complete the sentence about Pierre de Coubertin with the correct year: The hero of his book is Thomas Arnold, and on his second visit in ______, Coubertin reflected on Arnold's influence in the chapel…
  48. Complete the sentence about Victor Hugo with the correct year: Hugo later titled himself as a viscount, and it was as "Vicomte Victor Hugo" that he was appointed a peer of France on 13 April ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Victor Hugo with the correct year: Weary of the constant moving required by military life, Sophie separated temporarily from Léopold and settled in Paris in ______ with her…
  50. Complete the sentence about Victor Hugo with the correct year: In October ______, the family rejoined Leopold, now Colonel Hugo, Governor of the province of Avellino.
  51. Complete the sentence about Les Misérables with the correct year: An incident Hugo witnessed in ______ involved three strangers and a police officer.
  52. Complete the sentence about Les Misérables with the correct year: In ______, Vidocq, already pardoned, saved one of the workers in his paper factory by lifting a heavy cart on his shoulders as Valjean…
  53. Complete the sentence about Les Misérables with the correct year: During the ______ revolt, Hugo walked the streets of Paris, saw the barricades blocking his way at points, and had to take shelter fro…
  54. Complete the sentence about Alexandre Dumas with the correct year: Decades later, after the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in ______, Dumas fell from favour and left France for Belgium, where he…
  55. Complete the sentence about Alexandre Dumas with the correct year: In ______, he founded and published the newspaper L'Indépendant, which supported Italian unification.
  56. Complete the sentence about The Three Musketeers with the correct year: The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the newspaper Le Siècle between March and July ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about The Three Musketeers with the correct year: In ______ France, D'Artagnan leaves his family in Gascony and travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard.
  58. Complete the sentence about The Three Musketeers with the correct year: Les Trois Mousquetaires was translated into three English versions by ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about The Three Musketeers with the correct year: In ______ Manfred E.Graham adapted the book for the Longman's Simplified English Series.
  60. Complete the sentence about The Count of Monte Cristo with the correct year: Dantès reappears in ______ as the mysterious, fabulously wealthy Count of Monte Cristo.
  61. Complete the sentence about Jules Verne with the correct year: Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since ______, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakesp…
  62. Complete the sentence about Jules Verne with the correct year: In France, ______ was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.
  63. Complete the sentence about Jules Verne with the correct year: In ______, the Verne family moved some hundred metres away to No. 2 Quai Jean-Bart, where Verne's brother Paul was born the same year.
  64. Complete the sentence about Jules Verne with the correct year: In ______, at the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes.
  65. Complete the sentence about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas with the correct year: Verne was inspired by a model of the French submarine Plongeur, which he saw at the Exposition Universelle in…
  66. Complete the sentence about Honoré de Balzac with the correct year: Honoré de Balzac was born on 20 May ______ to Bernard-François Balssa and Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier.
  67. Complete the sentence about Honoré de Balzac with the correct year: In ______, the Balzac family moved to Paris, and Honoré was sent to private tutors and schools for the next two and a half years.
  68. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: Toward the end of ______, he traveled in the Pyrenees and Corsica.
  69. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In ______, after an attack of epilepsy, he left Paris and abandoned the study of law.
  70. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In September ______, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony.
  71. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In ______, after returning from Egypt, Flaubert began work on Madame Bovary.
  72. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: The novel, which took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In ______, Flaubert travelled to Carthage to gather material for his next novel, Salammbô.
  74. Complete the sentence about Madame Bovary with the correct year: When the novel was first serialised in Revue de Paris between 1 October and 15 December ______, public prosecutors attacked it on the g…
  75. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The novel was translated into English by Eleanor Marx in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Marcel Proust with the correct year: In ______, Proust began work on À la recherche du temps perdu when he was 38.
  77. Complete the sentence about In Search of Lost Time with the correct year: An approximate timeline of the novel was deduced by literary theorist Gérard Genette in his ______ book Narrative Discourse: A…
  78. Complete the sentence about The Stranger with the correct year: Camus completed the initial manuscript by May ______, with revisions suggested by André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Raymond Queneau that…
  79. Complete the sentence about The Stranger with the correct year: Louis Hudon dismissed the characterisation of L'Étranger as an existentialist novel in his ______ analysis.
  80. Complete the sentence about The Stranger with the correct year: The ______ study by Ignace Feuerlicht begins with an examination of the themes of alienation, in the sense of Meursault being a 'strange…
  81. Complete the sentence about Jean-Paul Sartre with the correct year: Despite declining health in his later years, Sartre remained committed to activism and intellectual debate until his death in ______…
  82. Complete the sentence about Simone de Beauvoir with the correct year: Beauvoir was born on 9 January ______ in Montparnasse in the 6th arrondissement in a quality but poorly furnished apartment.
  83. Complete the sentence about Voltaire with the correct year: Arouet adopted the name Voltaire in ______, following his incarceration at the Bastille.
  84. Complete the sentence about Jean-Jacques Rousseau with the correct year: Since ______, Geneva had been a Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism.
  85. Complete the sentence about Jean-Jacques Rousseau with the correct year: In ______, democratic reformer Pierre Fatio protested this situation, saying "A sovereign that never performs an act of soverei…
  86. Complete the sentence about Jean-Jacques Rousseau with the correct year: In ______, Isaac ran into political difficulty by entering a quarrel with visiting English officers, who in response drew their…
  87. Complete the sentence about Jean-Jacques Rousseau with the correct year: In ______, Suzanne had to answer charges that she had attended a street theatre disguised as a peasant woman so she could gaze…
  88. Complete the sentence about Jean-Jacques Rousseau with the correct year: Rousseau was born on 28 June ______, and he later related: "I was born almost dying, they had little hope of saving me".
  89. Complete the sentence about Montesquieu with the correct year: In ______ he married the Protestant Jeanne de Lartigue, with whom he eventually had three children.
  90. Complete the sentence about Montesquieu with the correct year: The Baron died in ______, leaving him his fortune as well as his title, and the office of président à mortier in the Bordeaux Parlement…
  91. Complete the sentence about Montesquieu with the correct year: In France, the long-reigning Louis XIV died in ______, and was succeeded by the five-year-old Louis XV.
  92. Complete the sentence about Montesquieu with the correct year: In ______, he went to Paris and entered social circles with the help of friends including the Duke of Berwick whom he had known when Berw…
  93. Complete the sentence about Montesquieu with the correct year: In ______ he sold his office, bored with the parlement and turning more toward Paris.
  94. Complete the sentence about Denis Diderot with the correct year: In ______ Diderot co-created the Encyclopédie with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
  95. Complete the sentence about Denis Diderot with the correct year: In ______ he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Paris.
  96. Complete the sentence about Encyclopédie with the correct year: Early in ______ a prospectus for the Encyclopédie was published to attract subscribers to the project.
  97. Complete the sentence about Encyclopédie with the correct year: In June ______, the Mercure printed a twenty-five-page article that praised Mills as a translator, equally fluent in French and English.
  98. Complete the sentence about Encyclopédie with the correct year: In any event, cooperation between Le Breton and Mills fell apart later on in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Encyclopédie with the correct year: Thirteen months later, in August ______, Gua de Malves resigned under pressure from Le Breton, having proven an ineffective leader.
  100. Complete the sentence about René Descartes with the correct year: In May ______, his mother, Jeanne Brochard, died a few days after giving birth to a still-born child.

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