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The culture of France has been shaped by geography, by historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France, and in particular Paris, has played an important role as a center of high culture since the 17th century and from the 19th century on, worldwide. From the late 19th century, France has also played an important role in ...
Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. [24] Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty , poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and ...
The Gleaners ( Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857 . It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; it was received poorly by the French upper classes.
France was a rural nation as late as 1940, but a major change took place after railways started arriving in the 1850s–60s. In his seminal book Peasants into Frenchmen (1976), historian Eugen Weber traced the modernization of French villages and argued that rural France went from backward and isolated to modern and possessing a sense of French ...
Life expectancy in the regions of metropolitan France in 2022 for male [31] Life expectancy in the regions of metropolitan France in 2022 for female [31] Life expectancy in Metropolitan France from 1818 to 1950. Source: Our World In Data. Death rate 9.6 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
In the 21st century, social class in France is often measured by income and profession. Bon chic bon genre (BCBG) is a term for fashionable people of good family (" bon genre "), especially in Paris. Graduates of the École nationale d'administration, or énarques predominate in the upper levels of government and many industries, along with ...
A map of France in 1843 under the July Monarchy. By the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France had expanded to nearly the modern territorial limits. The 19th century would complete the process by the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice (first during the First Empire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal (like Avignon) and foreign possessions.
The ancien régime ( / ˌɒ̃sjæ̃ reɪˈʒiːm /; French: [ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim] ⓘ; lit. 'old rule') was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [ 1] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility [ 2] and in 1792 through its execution of the king and ...