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Paris, the capital city of the country France is celebrated most for the Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's tomb and Notre Dame. This city is also known as the world's fashion capital. The very popular Statue of Liberty was created in France, and gifted to the United States of America. The face of the statue is sculpted similar to the face of Isabella Eugenie Boyer, wife of the manufacturer of the Parisian sewing machine, Isaac Singer. The official language in France, French was also the official language of England for more than 300 years. The 1st of April originated as the fools day from France. When the country switched over to the Gregorian calendar people unaware of the change considered 1st April as the New Year's Day. From that day onwards the fool's day originated to mock them.


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taimi
hey
I am interested in factist if Eiffel is really wrong, or is it slander.
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taimi at 11:06AM, Jan 4th 2010.
Ashley

I went on this really good site for the Eiffel Tower. It helps alot !Hopefully this link will help .



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Ashley at 01:58PM, Apr 16th 2010.
enrique
this site is awsome
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enrique at 03:39PM, May 4th 2010.
Allen
"Paris, the capital city of the country France" deserves to have a comma after. Also, where are your sources? Please cite. I'm aware that many people are not raised around English speakers, which is the excuse most people use for their mistakes, but if one is to learn a language, at least be committed to learning it well. Those who have published works must cite their sources and the least you could have done was read it through or run it through a spell checker.
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Allen at 10:56PM, May 17th 2010.
Phil
Unfortunately the fact that the English spoke French for 300 years is not correct. Following defeat in battle to the French in 1066 many noble men came to England from France, they were given positions of status and obviously spoke French, however, the vast majority of English people continued to speak the variation of English in use at the time, commonly referred to as Middle English.
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Phil at 10:26AM, Aug 10th 2010.

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