The document provides information on three topics related to France: 1) It discusses notable French writers Denis Diderot and Paul Verlaine, highlighting their contributions to literature and association with the Enlightenment and Symbolist movements. 2) It outlines key aspects of France's economy, identifying it as the 5th largest in the world and 2nd largest in Europe, with details on its use of the euro and comparisons to other European economies. 3) It includes brief sections on the French language, maps of France, and examples of French Baroque architecture.

1. La France
Vanny Diaz
Period 2

2. NOVELIST
Denis Diderot
•Denis Diderot (October
5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a
French philosopher, art
critic, and writer. He was a
prominent person during the
Enlightenment and is best
known for serving as co-
founder and chief editor of and
contributor to the Encyclopédie.
• Diderot's earliest works
included a translation of
Temple Stanyan's History of
Greece (1743)

3.  Paul Verlaine:
• was a French poet associated with the
Symbolist movement. He is considered
one of the greatest representatives of the
fin de siècle in international and French
poetry.
• Verlaine's first published poem was
published in 1863 in La Revue du
progrès, a publication founded by poet
Louis-Xavier de Ricard.
• Verlaine's last years saw his descent into
drug addiction, alcoholism, and poverty.
He lived in slums and public
hospitals, and spent his days drinking
absinthe in Paris cafes. Fortunately, the
French people's love of the arts was able
to resurrect support and bring in an
income for Verlaine: his early poetry was
rediscovered, his lifestyle and strange
behavior in front of crowds attracted
admiration, and in 1894 he was elected
France's "Prince of Poets" by his peers.

4. France’s Economy
• France is the 5th largest economy in the
world.
• France is the second largest economy in
Europe.
• France now uses euro’s , before it used to
use franc’s which they stopped using in
2001-2002.
• France has 3rd largest economy in the PPP
figures France is behind Germany and the
United Kingdom

5. Map of France

6. • The language of France is
French.
• 86% of France’s population
speak French
• In total 39,360,000 speak
French.
• The other 14% of the
population speak different

7. ARTIST
Pierre
Quesnel
worked in
Scotland for
Mary of
Guise and
James V. He
is listed as
an Usher in
Guise's
household
and is

8. Architecture
Baroque is a
building that is
surrounded by
water and it has a
castle like view.