The always pleasant Eiffel Tower.

France has many monuments, likely the most well known being the Eiffel Tower.

The Eiffel Tower was finished in March 31st, 1889
Construction of the Eiffel Tower was planned in 1884
The actual construction begin in 1887.
It was named after Gustave Eiffel. (an important man in the construction of the Eiffel tower)
The main architect was not Gustave Eiffel though, but a man by the name of Stephen Sauvestre.
Its location is in Paris.
It is used as a radio broadcasting tower and an observation tower.

Picture of Eiffel Tower + information (not quite the picture i used but i find it sufficient)

a little on the flag, and some economics

Here is the general look for France's flag. In actuality it looks quite a bit more...three dimensional



The french currency used to be the franc. It looks a bit like this:

However in 2002 the franc was taken over by the euro. Which looks like this:



One euro is the equivalent to 1.31 American dollars,
and equal to 6.55957 francs.



euro link found here

franc link found here

dollar to euro/ euro to dollar

euro and franc converter

french flag picture

A detailed map and some minor information, and some politics!

 Here is the actual website I found this map.
This here, is a very well done map of France
Here are a few fun facts about France:

> It has a population of 65,821,885
> Its general coordinates/ latitude, and longitude is 46.0000 degrees N and 2.0000 degrees E

A little on politics:
France is best described as a republic which basically means power is mostly within the citizens that are able to vote, that vote however is expressed through a representative chosen by the people.

France has both a president and a prime minister,
the president being Nicolas Sarkozy,
the prime minister being Francois Fillon,

To go in depth about the government, it is actually called the Fifth Republic. It is being governed by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. It was originally created by Charles de Gaull in 1959, he was the very first president under this new republic, the first prime minister under this government was the man who helped him create the Fifth Republic, Michel Debre.

Fifth Republic info