Fun French Facts

- The Languedoc-Rousillon city of Nîmes is the birthplace of jeans. The distinctive fabric was imported to California by Levi Strauss in order to make tough work trousers for gold diggers. Denim is short for“de Nîmes”

- The Statue of Liberty was made in France, and given to the United States as a gift. The statue’s face is thought to be modeled on that of Isabella Eugenie Boyer, the Parisian wife of sewing machine manufacturer Isaac Singer.

- The Eiffel Tower, designed by Gustav Eiffel, was made for the 1889 World Fair and wasn’t all that popular with Parisians at the time,even though it was then the tallest structure in the world. It was due to be torn down in 1909, but it was saved as it made an ideal spot to put TV and radio antennas on top of.

-Nearly 6m people climb the Eiffel Tower (or Tour d’Eiffel) every year. - If you laid out the cables used in the lifts of the Eiffel Tower end to end, they would stretch for 16 kilometers.

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