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Napoleon Bonaparte constructed L'Hopital des Invalides (known as Les Invalides) to provide health care and respite to France's injured soldiers.
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Napoleon Bonaparte constructed L'Hopital des Invalides (known as Les Invalides) to provide health care and respite to France's injured soldiers.

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  • The best way to explore the old town is on foot, in order to negotiate the twisting lanes...
  • ...and covered walkways.
  • Old buildings like these are now hotels and guest houses, as well as private residences.
  • This remarkable buiding, shaped like the prow of a ship sailing down the canal, was once a prison, and is now a museum. It is one of the most photographed landmarks in France.
  • Goods were transported through the town via a system of canals and locks. Now that tourism is the main industry, many restaurants and shops can be found lining the waterways.
  • Sete is situated on the Meditteranean, where it is the largest French fishing port .<br /> It is soon to be the Swiss base for their Americas Cup defence.
  • The marina in Sete is surrounded by restaurants and shops. Most of the cafes and bars look straight out on the water.
  • Tour boats take visitors through the Sete harbour into the Meditteranean.<br /> Some have glass bottoms to allow underwater viewing of marine life.
  • One of France's most widely-known cheeses, Roquefort, is made from the milk of the sheep that graze these hills.<br /> The cheese factories are all in the town of Roquefort sur Soulzon.<br /> Because Roquefort cheese is unpasteurised, it is not able to be imported into Australia, which is one of the 21st century's great tragedies.
  • Playground for the rich and famous, Cap d'Agde.
  • Much of France still shows evidence of the Romans - this is Aigues-Mortes.<br /> Situated in the salt producing Camargue region, Aigues-Mortes (it means "dead water" in English) is still completely walled.
  • The walls of Aigues-Mortes are virtually the same now as when the Romans inhabited the town.<br /> Only the modern (and not-so modern, in the case of this venerable Citroen) vehicles would hint at the date.
  • Although vehicles are permitted inside the walls of the old city of Aigues-Mortes, most sensible townspeople use pedal power.
  • La Grotte de Clamouse, between Montpellier and Beziers, is where you can see these stalagtites and stalagmites. Stalagtites hang down, and stalagmites grow up.<br /> This series of underground caves is readily accessible, and the tour is complete with an outstanding sound & light presentation in the main chamber.
  • Bull fighting in France?<br /> Not now, but it was the case once. The bull ring is in the town of Arles, in France's south west.<br /> It is still well kept, and is used for community events, such as concerts.
  • Spring time in one of the best known squares in Paris, La Place des Voges.<br /> It is surrounded on all four sides by buildings, one of which was the house of Victor Hugo.
  • Parisians probably invented the cafe society, and it still flourishes today. Spending the afternoon people-watching at an outdoor cafe or bar is de riguer in Paris.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte constructed L'Hopital des Invalides (known as Les Invalides) to provide health care and respite to France's injured soldiers.
  • Napoleon was buried in Les Invalides. <br /> His tomb is under the gold dome in the background.
  • We know it as "The Thinker", and in French it is "Le Penseur", the best known of Rodin's works.<br /> The dome over Napoleon's tomb can be seen behind the statue.
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