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The Académie Française has aimed to preserve the French language since 1634
Europe’s highest mountain is in the French Alps
The French have produced a number of world-renown inventions
France was the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food
About one million French people living near the border with Italy speak Italian
France has produced some of the world’s most influential writers and thinkers
The French invented the metric system, the decimalized way of counting and weighing, in 1793
French gastronomy was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2010
Totalling around 29,000km, the French rail network is the second largest in Europe and the ninth biggest in the world
The French eat around 30,000 tons of snails a year
The Louvre Museum in Paris was the most visited museum in the world in 2014