What is France like? Well, it is many things, all in a six-sided area smaller than the state of Texas. (The French often refer to their country as l’Hexagone because of its shape.) It is rolling fields of wheat stretching as far as the eye can see. Off in the distance, rising above the fields, may be the bell tower of a church built 800 years ago. Or it is green pastures, where cows and goats are grazing in the shadow of high mountains, with cars whizzing past on a nearby superhighway.
France is vineyards, neat rows of grapevines clinging to the side of a hill. France has mountains, and it has plains; it has hundreds of tiny streams and four major rivers: la Seine, la Loire, la Garonne, and le Rhône.
Source: Son et Sens. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresmen and Company. 3rd Ed.
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