Portal:France/Did you know

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...that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
...that the Forest of Compiègne was the site of armistice agreements in both the First and the Second World Wars?
...that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines?

...that Haulotte Group are the third-biggest manufacturer of aerial work platforms (pictured) in the world?
...that the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour-Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?

...that many of the viaducts (pictured) on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord were two-tiered structures, and that the Viaduc de Souzain had a railway junction on the viaduct itself?
...that the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day invasion?

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