Capital - Paris
France is divided into 26 administrative régions,21 are on the continental part of metropolitan France; one is the "territorial collectivity" of Corse, on the island of Corsica and four are overseas régions: Guadeloupe( Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin come under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe), Martinique, French Guiana. and Réunion .
In addition to the 26 régions, the French Republic is further made up of overseas collectivities : Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Mayotte, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia and New Caledonia. An the overseas territory of French Southern and Antarctic Territories (including France's Antarctic claim)
in part of this region)
French Regions/Regions & Popular Cities
Alsace
Capital: Strasbourg
Aquitaine
Capital:Bordeaux
***Cote de Basque
***Landes
***St. Jean de Luz
Auvergne*
Basse-Normandie* (Lower Normandy)
Capital : Caen
***Bayeux
***Cherbourg-Octeville
*** Deauville*
***Honfleur
***Ri, Normandy*
Bourgogne (also Burgandy)
***Beaune
***Chablis
***Dijon
Bretagne( also Brittany)
***Belle Ile
***Lorient
***St. Malo
Centre*
Loire Valley is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. Known for its world-famous castles, such as the Châteaux Amboise, Château de Villandry, Chambord and Chenonceau.
*** Loiret*
*** Indre-et-Loire
******Tours
Champagne-Ardenne
Corsica(Corse)
***Ajaccio
***Bastia
***Bonifacio
***Calvi
***Porto Vecchio
Franche-Comté*
Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy)*
Capital: Rouen
***Giverny
***Le Havre
Île-de-France*
***Paris
***Poissy*
Languedoc - Roussillon
***Montpellier
***Nimes
***Sete
Limousin
Lorraine*
***Meuse*
***Vosges*
Midi-Pyrénées
*** Capital: Toulouse
*** Lourdes
Nord-Pas de Calais Region
*** Nord
*** Pas-de-Calais
Pays de la Loire*
***Nantes
Picardie (also Picardy)
Poitou - Charentes
***La Rochelle
Provence Alps Cote d'azur(also PACA)
***Arles
***Avignon
***Cannes
***Cassis
***Le Lavandou
***Marseilles
***Nice
***Porquerolles
***Sanary-Sur-Mer
***St. Tropez
***Toulon
***Var*
***Villefranche-sur-Mer
Rhone-Alpes
***Chamonix (Chamonix-Mont-Blanc)
***Dardilly
***Grenoble
*** Lyon
Overseas collectivity of France
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The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon ), commonly known as the Knights Templar or the Order of the Temple were among the most famous of the Christian military orders. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip had many of the Order's members, including the Grand Master Jacques de Molay, arrested, tortured into "confessions", and burned at the stake.
(In recent times this fact has been cited as the origin of the superstitious belief that Friday the 13th is unlucky; but there is no evidence that this superstition existed before the early 20th century, let alone connected with the events of 1307.)
