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Toulouse is the fourth-largest city in France and the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus. The city has earned its nickname due to its unique architecture made of pinkish terracotta bricks.

The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The family held the English throne from 1154, with the accession of Henry II, until 1485, when Richard III died in battle.

Lavoisier was a powerful member of a number of aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme générale - a hated tax agency. At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco, and sentenced to death.

The Carolingian Empire was a large empire in western and central Europe during the early Middle Ages. Its lands included area of modern France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy and northern Spain.

Louis XIV ruled for 72 years and 110 days, which is the longest period of rule of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history.

Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793, aged 38, at Place de la Concorde in Paris (then named Place de la Révolution).

The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453, so it might more accurately be called the "116 Years' War."

Tapenade is a Provençal name for a dish consisting of puréed or finely-chopped olives, capers, and olive oil. Its name comes from the Provençal word for capers, tapenas. Base ingredients of tapenade are olives and capers. The olives (most commonly black olive) and capers are chopped finely, crushed, or blended.

The Treaty of Verdun, signed in August 843, was the first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, who was the son of Charlemagne. The treaty, signed in Verdun-sur-Meuse, ended the three-year Carolingian Civil War.

Kanak are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific. According to the 2014 census, they make up 39.1% of the total population with around 104,000 people. Religion is an important aspect of Kanaks' life. Kanaks attend the Catholic Church in Nouméa. and they form nearly 50% of the population of Catholics in New Caledonia, next only to the Europeans.