Some things I love about France (in no particular order)

Croissants/baguettes

Pain au chocolat

The river Seine

The amazing architecture of the Eiffel Tower

Good French weather

Strasbourg (my memories of Alsace are as fresh in my mind as they were 14 years ago)

Street cafes

The Champs-Elysees
 
The language

Helene Segara

Le FNAC (music/bookshop)

Sephora (beautician's paradise)

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  1. Pour moi cést les gens qui ons des tempéraments comme moi et qui sont passionées de different chauses. Et le nord de la France; petite villages, pas grandes villes.

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