1. 10 Little Known French Facts
1) In Paris you are never more that 400 meters from a subway station.
2) The Marseillaise, the French national anthem, was first sung in Strasbourg, not
Marseille.
3) The novel La Disparition (Disappeared) by Georges Perec, in its original French
does not use the letter 'e'.
4) In French two weeks is in fact 15 days, quinze jours.
5) When the President of France eats a Gallette des Rois, a traditional cake eaten in
early January, it can't have a fève, a small token, in it. Whoever will get the fève is the
king or queen for the day, but of course the President of France can't be royalty.
6) French politicians can simultaneously hold more than one elected office.
7) Lefevre is the most popular last name in France.
8) There are 27 wine regions in France.
9) Comté cheese is best eaten 30 months after it is made.
10) Alsacien type homes are not considered immobilier, the French term for real estate
that also means non-moveable, but in fact mobilier, French for moveable, because they
are demountable and thus can be moved. Alsacien type homes were built this way so
that homes could be part of dowries.