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70% of France's electricity is generated by {nuclear} power, the highest proportion in the world. | 100%
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After his brief return from exile, {Napoleon} was finally defeated in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo. | 100%
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By 2006, the {Michelin} Guide had awarded 620 stars to French restaurants. | 100%
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France is the world's top {tourist} destination, ahead of Spain (83 million) and the United States (80 million). | 100%
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Insurgents stormed the {Bastille} on 14 July 1789, a date which would become France's National Day. | 100%
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Mont Blanc, located in the {Alps} on the French and Italian border, is the highest point in Western Europe. | 100%
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Since the 1960s, France has developed close ties with reunified {Germany}. | 100%
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The nation also hosts the {Cannes} Festival, one of the most important and famous film festivals in the world. | 100%
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{England} and France entered the off-and-on Hundred Years' War. | 92%
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On 6 June 1944, the Allies invaded {Normandy} and in August they invaded Provence. | 92%
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Charlemagne tried to revive the Western {Roman} Empire and its cultural grandeur. | 83%
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{Cubism} was developed by Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, living in Paris. | 83%
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In 600 BC, Ionian Greeks from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (present-day {Marseille}). | 67%
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Some consider {hate} speech laws in France to be too broad or severe. | 67%
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The territory of Metropolitan France was settled during the Iron Age by Celtic tribes known as {Gauls}. | 50%
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A {face} transplant was first done on 27 November 2005 by Bernard Devauchelle. | 33%
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Jules Ferry is considered the father of the French modern {school}, leading reforms in the late 19th century. | 33%
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Rameau became the dominant composer of French {opera} and the leading French composer of the harpsichord. | 33%
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French kings would be called "the Most {Christian} Kings of France". | 8%
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The government is prohibited from collecting data on ethnicity and {ancestry}. | 8%
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