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Help! Several words were lost while moving sentences from France's Wikipedia article to this quiz. Fill in the blanks to restore these sentences.
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The territory of Metropolitan France was settled during the Iron Age by Celtic tribes known as Gauls.
In 600 BC, Ionian Greeks from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (present-day Marseille).
French kings would be called "the Most Christian Kings of France".
Charlemagne tried to revive the Western Roman Empire and its cultural grandeur.
England and France entered the off-and-on Hundred Years' War.
Insurgents stormed the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a date which would become France's National Day.
After his brief return from exile, Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo.
On 6 June 1944, the Allies invaded Normandy and in August they invaded Provence.
Mont Blanc, located in the Alps on the French and Italian border, is the highest point in Western Europe.
Some consider hate speech laws in France to be too broad or severe.
Since the 1960s, France has developed close ties with reunified Germany.
France is the world's top tourist destination, ahead of Spain (83 million) and the United States (80 million).
70% of France's electricity is generated by nuclear power, the highest proportion in the world.
A face transplant was first done on 27 November 2005 by Bernard Devauchelle.
The government is prohibited from collecting data on ethnicity and ancestry.
Jules Ferry is considered the father of the French modern school, leading reforms in the late 19th century.
Cubism was developed by Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, living in Paris.
Rameau became the dominant composer of French opera and the leading French composer of the harpsichord.
The nation also hosts the Cannes Festival, one of the most important and famous film festivals in the world.
By 2006, the Michelin Guide had awarded 620 stars to French restaurants.
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