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France travel guides, such as those from Rough Guide and Lonely Planet, are the best first-stop for tourism information on France. You should pick a French travel guidebook with a balance between background information and practical information. There are both regional touring books and general books on France available - choose the type most appropriate to your needs. You can visit Stanfords' online catalogue for more information on all the types of guidebooks to France mentioned in this guide. Hotel accommodation - the Michelin Guide is an always reliable guidebook when looking for hotel accommodation in France, but other such as Rough Guide offer good hotel accommodation guides as well. Most France touring guides include accommodation information, but for a dedicated guidebook, the Michelin Guide is packed with hotel information.
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Since the name Francia Orientalis had disappeared, there arose the habit to refer to Francia Occidentalis as Francia only, from which the word France is derived. The French state has been in continuous existence since 843 (except for a brief interruption in 885-887), with an unbroken line of heads of states since the first king of Francia Occidentalis (Charles the Bald) to the current president of the French Republic (Jacques Chirac). Noticeably, in German, France is still called Frankreich, which literally means "Reich (realm) of the Franks". In order to distinguish from the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, France is called Frankreich, while the Frankish Empire is called Frankenreich.
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Guidebooks on France for the independent traveller, such as Lonely Planet and Rough Guides are the first reference for tourism information. Nowadays there are so many that it is not easy to pick the best. The main factors in choosing a French travel guidebook are the balance between practical information and background and assessing what budget-range it caters for. Many major publishers have started to produce more and more regional books but the Michelin Green Guides series remains the most comprehensive guidebook for touring France.
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Before the arrival of the Franks, France was called Gaul (Latin: Gallia; French: Gaule). This name continued to be used for a very long time after the Franks arrived in what is now France. In fact, for as long as the cultural elites of Europe used Latin predominantly (until the 18th century), the name Gallia continued to be used alongside the name France. Today, in modern French, the word Gaule has completely disappeared, and is only used in an historical context. The only current use of the word is in the title of the leader of the French bishops, the archbishop of Lyon, whose official title is Primate of the Gauls (Primat des Gaules). Gaul is in the plural in the title, reflecting the three Gallic entities identified by the Romans (Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania).
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France has something for everybody. This variety is reflected in the diverse range of tourism guidebooks available on the market. What follows is a survey of the main types of guidebook available for those planning on touring France. There is a wide range of comprehensive French guides on everything about tourism, from hotels and accommodation to restaurants and walking. Plus French travel literature, museum guidebooks, background reading, battlefield and food and drink guides that are invaluable for those touriing in France. Each type of guidebook is well-represented in the Stanfords' catalogue and you will be able to click through to the Stanfords' website using the links at the end of each section.
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Since 2004, France has discovered the speed camera, or fixed radar camera. Over a thousand of these have now gone up on France's roads and motorways, and you can find the official French radar map of them on Internet. However, do not forget that new radars are being set up all the time, and that the official map obviously does not include the mobile radar cars or the movable stationary radars. So the best rule - not to say the most sensible one - is to observe the speed limit.Wining and driving
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