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1. Lance Armstrong -- Tour De France
   Lance Armstrong is the most famous bicycle racer in the world today. In 2005, he did what no one had ever done. He won the Tour de France for the seventh year in a row. The Tour de France is a bicycle race in France. It is more than 2,000 miles long. It takes weeks to finish.
2. Armstrong (Armstrong, Lance - Cyclist) -- Tour De France
   In 1992 Armstrong turned professional and soon became a dominant force on the European tour. In 1993 he won 10 titles, including his first stage victory in the Tour de France and the title of youngest world road-racing champion ever. During the next two years Armstrong continued to impress with more victories and a world ranking of No 1, but the gruelling nature of the month-long Tour de France proved too much and overall victory in that event eluded him.
3. France -- De Gaulle
   The area of France is 207,107 square miles; it has a coastline 1560 miles and a land frontier 1525 miles in length. In shape it resembles a hexagon of which the sides are: (1) From Dunkirk to Point St-Matthieu (sands and dunes from Dunkirk to the mouth of the Somme; cliffs, called falaises, extending from the Somme to the Orne, except where their wall is broken by the estuary of the Seine; granite boulders intersected by deep inlets from the Orne to Point St-Matthieu. (2) From Point St-Matthieu to the mouth of the Bidassoa (alternate granite cliffs and river inlets as far as the River Loire; sandy stretches and arid moors from the Loire to the Garonne; sands, lagoons, and dunes from the Garonne to the Pyrenees). (3) From the Bidassoa to Point Cerbére (a formation known as Pyrenean chalk). (4) From Point Cerbére to the mouth of the Roya (a steep, rocky frontier from the Pyrenees to the Tech; sands and lagoons between the Tech and the Rhone, and an unbroken wall of pointed rocks stretching from the Rhone to the Roya). (5) From the Roya to Mount Donon (running along the Maritime, the Cottain, and the Graian Alps, as well as the mountains of Jura and the Vosges).
4. Arc De Triomphe -- France Galop
   The Arc de Triomphe was the brainchild of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, as Parisians were examining ways to improve the five-way intersection at the start of the Champs Elysees, he decided to build a monument to his army and his own military genius. Today, it is a symbol of all things victorious in Paris. The Tour de France climaxes here, and Bastille Day celebrations are centered here.
5. France Travel -- Air France
   France has rail services to every European country. The high-speed Eurostar train links Paris to London is under three hours. Ferries ... link France to Ireland, the Channel Islands and Britain. France has international airports in Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly in Paris, and in Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Toulouse and Strasbourg.
6. France -- Countries
   France is a member of the United Nations and serves as one of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council with veto rights. It is ... a member of the WTO, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) , the Indian Ocean Commission (COI). It is an associate member of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) and a leading member of the International Francophone Organisation (OIF) of fifty-one fully or partly French-speaking countries. It hosts the headquarters of the OECD, UNESCO, Interpol, Alliance Base and the International Bureau for Weights and Measures. In 1953 France received a request from the United Nations to pick a coat of arms that would represent it internationally.
7. Mary -- France
   At the age of eight years, Mary began her formal education at Shelby Female Academy. At age 14, Mary entered Madame Victorie Mentelle’s select academy for young ladies, just outside Lexington. After that, she moved to Springfield, Illinois, to live with her sister Frances, who had married Dr. William S. Wallace. After three months, Mary returned to Shelby Female Academy for two more years.
8. Google France
   Reuters reports Google France was sued by Flach Film, a French film producer, for copyright infringement. They claim their video, "The World According to Bush," was published on Google Video France, and viewed more 50,000 times, before Google removed the video. The French film producer estimates $648,700 in prejudice but Google said "our terms and conditions specify that users (Internet surfers) don't have permission to use videos which they don't own the rights to."
9. France -- World
   France emerged from World War II to face a series of new problems. After a short period of provisional government initially led by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the Fourth Republic was set up by a new constitution and established as a parliamentary form of government controlled by a series of coalitions. French military involvement in both Indochina and Algeria combined with the mixed nature of the coalitions and a consequent lack of agreement caused successive cabinet crises and changes of government.
10. France Travel
    The borders of modern France closely align with those of the ancient territory of Gaul, inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. Gaul was conquered by the Romans in the first century BC, and the Gauls eventually adopted Romance speech and culture. Christianity ... took root in the second and third centuries AD. Gaul's eastern frontiers along the Rhine were overrun by Germanic tribes in the fourth century AD, principally the Franks, from which the ancient name of "Francie" derived. The modern name "France" derives from the name of the feudal domain of the Capetian Kings of France around Paris (see now Île-de-France).

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