Unexpected and full of exuberant life, France is even more than you could ... "The Morozov Collection" Exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

France, officially French Republic, French France or République Française, country of northwestern Europe. Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world, France has also played a highly significant role in international affairs, with former colonies in every corner of the globe. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Alps and the Pyrenees, France has long provided a geographic, economic, and linguistic bridge joining northern and southern Europe. It is Europe’s most important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers. France is among the globe’s oldest nations, the product of an alliance of duchies and principalities under a single ruler in the Middle Ages. Today, as in that era, central authority is vested in the state, even though a measure of autonomy has been granted to the country’s régions in recent decades. The French people look to the state as the primary guardian of liberty, and the state in turn provides a generous program of amenities for its citizens, from free education to health care and pension plans. Even so, this centralist tendency is often at odds with another long-standing theme of the French nation: the insistence on the supremacy of the individual. On this matter historian Jules Michelet remarked, “England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person.” Statesman Charles de Gaulle, too, famously complained, “Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.”This tendency toward individualism joins with a pluralist outlook and a great interest in the larger world. Even though its imperialist stage was driven by the impulse to civilize that world according to French standards (la mission civilisatrice), the French still note approvingly the words of writer Gustave Flaubert: I am no more modern than I am ancient, no more French than Chinese; and the idea of la patrie, the fatherland—that is, the obligation to live on a bit of earth coloured red or blue on a map, and to detest the other bits coloured green or black—has always seemed to me narrow, restricted, and ferociously stupid. At once universal and particular, French culture has spread far and greatly influenced the development of art and science, particularly anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. France has also been influential in government and civil affairs, giving the world important democratic ideals in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and inspiring the growth of reformist and even revolutionary movements for generations. The present Fifth Republic has, however, enjoyed notable stability since its promulgation on September 28, 1958, marked by a tremendous growth in private initiative and the rise of centrist politics. Although France has engaged in long-running disputes with other European powers (and, from time to time, with the United States, its longtime ally), it emerged as a leading member in the European Union (EU) and its predecessors. From 1966 to 1995 France did not participate in the integrated military structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), retaining full control over its own air, ground, and naval forces; beginning in 1995, however, France was represented on the NATO Military Committee, and in 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that the country would rejoin the organization’s military command. As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—together with the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, and China—France has the right to veto decisions put to the council. The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s preeminent cultural and commercial centres. A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or “city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s vision of a modern city free of the choleric swamps and congested alleys of old, with broad avenues and a regular plan. Paris is now a sprawling metropolis, one of Europe’s largest conurbations, but its historic heart can still be traversed in an evening’s walk. Confident that their city stood at the very centre of the world, Parisians were once given to referring to their country as having two parts, Paris and le désert, the wasteland beyond it. Metropolitan Paris has now extended far beyond its ancient suburbs into the countryside, however, and nearly every French town and village now numbers a retiree or two driven from the city by the high cost of living, so that, in a sense, Paris has come to embrace the desert and the desert Paris. Among France’s other major cities are Lyon, located along an ancient Rhône valley trade route linking the North Sea and the Mediterranean; Marseille, a multiethnic port on the Mediterranean founded as an entrepôt for Greek and Carthaginian traders in the 6th century bce; Nantes, an industrial centre and deepwater harbour along the Atlantic coast; and Bordeaux, located in southwestern France along the Garonne River. Land of France France lies near the western end of the great Eurasian landmass, largely between latitudes 42° and 51° N. Roughly hexagonal in outline, its continental territory is bordered on the northeast by Belgium and Luxembourg, on the east by Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and Andorra, on the west by the Bay of Biscay, and on the northwest by the English Channel (La Manche). To the north, France faces southeastern England across the narrow Strait of Dover (Pas de Calais). Monaco is an independent enclave on the south coast, while the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean is treated as an integral part of the country. Relief The French landscape, for the most part, is composed of relatively low-lying plains, plateaus, and older mountain blocks, or massifs. This pattern clearly predominates over that of the younger, high ranges, such as the Alps and the Pyrenees. The diversity of the land is typical of Continental Europe. Three main geologic regions are distinguishable: the skeletal remains of ancient mountains that make up the Hercynian massifs; the northern and western plains; and the higher young fold mountains in the south and southeast, including the Alps and the Pyrenees, with their attendant narrow plains. Much of the detailed relief can be attributed geologically to the varying differences in the resistance of rocks to erosion. A great deal of the present landscape detail is due to glaciation during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). France lay outside the range of the great ice sheets that descended upon the northern part of Europe, so the direct sculpting of the land by ice was restricted to the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Vosges, Corsica, and the highest summits of the Massif Central. Just outside these glacial areas, in what are known as periglacial lands, repeated freezing and thawing of unprotected surfaces modified slopes by the movement of waste sheets (formed of shattered bedrock), producing very much the landscape that exists today. Pleistocene periglacial action generated the sheets of the fine windblown limon, or loess, that is the basis of the most fertile lowland soils, and it possibly also created the Landes, a sandy plain in southwestern France. The development of river terraces (flat, raised surfaces alongside valleys) was another characteristic of periglacial action. More …. Score: https://www.britannica.com/place/France

There are some trips that are all around fantastic experiences and then there are some that develop into truly meaningful ones. My trip to southern France fell into the latter for so many reasons. One of those, was because it was my first time traveling solo internationally.

Unexpected and full of exuberant life, France is even more than you could ... "The Morozov Collection" Exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

France, officially French Republic, French France or République Française, country of northwestern Europe. Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world, France has also played a highly significant role in international affairs, with former colonies in every corner of the globe. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Alps and the Pyrenees, France has long provided a geographic, economic, and linguistic bridge joining northern and southern Europe. It is Europe’s most important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers. France is among the globe’s oldest nations, the product of an alliance of duchies and principalities under a single ruler in the Middle Ages. Today, as in that era, central authority is vested in the state, even though a measure of autonomy has been granted to the country’s régions in recent decades. The French people look to the state as the primary guardian of liberty, and the state in turn provides a generous program of amenities for its citizens, from free education to health care and pension plans. Even so, this centralist tendency is often at odds with another long-standing theme of the French nation: the insistence on the supremacy of the individual. On this matter historian Jules Michelet remarked, “England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person.” Statesman Charles de Gaulle, too, famously complained, “Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.”This tendency toward individualism joins with a pluralist outlook and a great interest in the larger world. Even though its imperialist stage was driven by the impulse to civilize that world according to French standards (la mission civilisatrice), the French still note approvingly the words of writer Gustave Flaubert: I am no more modern than I am ancient, no more French than Chinese; and the idea of la patrie, the fatherland—that is, the obligation to live on a bit of earth coloured red or blue on a map, and to detest the other bits coloured green or black—has always seemed to me narrow, restricted, and ferociously stupid. At once universal and particular, French culture has spread far and greatly influenced the development of art and science, particularly anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. France has also been influential in government and civil affairs, giving the world important democratic ideals in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and inspiring the growth of reformist and even revolutionary movements for generations. The present Fifth Republic has, however, enjoyed notable stability since its promulgation on September 28, 1958, marked by a tremendous growth in private initiative and the rise of centrist politics. Although France has engaged in long-running disputes with other European powers (and, from time to time, with the United States, its longtime ally), it emerged as a leading member in the European Union (EU) and its predecessors. From 1966 to 1995 France did not participate in the integrated military structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), retaining full control over its own air, ground, and naval forces; beginning in 1995, however, France was represented on the NATO Military Committee, and in 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that the country would rejoin the organization’s military command. As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—together with the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, and China—France has the right to veto decisions put to the council. The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s preeminent cultural and commercial centres. A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or “city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s vision of a modern city free of the choleric swamps and congested alleys of old, with broad avenues and a regular plan. Paris is now a sprawling metropolis, one of Europe’s largest conurbations, but its historic heart can still be traversed in an evening’s walk. Confident that their city stood at the very centre of the world, Parisians were once given to referring to their country as having two parts, Paris and le désert, the wasteland beyond it. Metropolitan Paris has now extended far beyond its ancient suburbs into the countryside, however, and nearly every French town and village now numbers a retiree or two driven from the city by the high cost of living, so that, in a sense, Paris has come to embrace the desert and the desert Paris. Among France’s other major cities are Lyon, located along an ancient Rhône valley trade route linking the North Sea and the Mediterranean; Marseille, a multiethnic port on the Mediterranean founded as an entrepôt for Greek and Carthaginian traders in the 6th century bce; Nantes, an industrial centre and deepwater harbour along the Atlantic coast; and Bordeaux, located in southwestern France along the Garonne River. Land of France France lies near the western end of the great Eurasian landmass, largely between latitudes 42° and 51° N. Roughly hexagonal in outline, its continental territory is bordered on the northeast by Belgium and Luxembourg, on the east by Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and Andorra, on the west by the Bay of Biscay, and on the northwest by the English Channel (La Manche). To the north, France faces southeastern England across the narrow Strait of Dover (Pas de Calais). Monaco is an independent enclave on the south coast, while the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean is treated as an integral part of the country. Relief The French landscape, for the most part, is composed of relatively low-lying plains, plateaus, and older mountain blocks, or massifs. This pattern clearly predominates over that of the younger, high ranges, such as the Alps and the Pyrenees. The diversity of the land is typical of Continental Europe. Three main geologic regions are distinguishable: the skeletal remains of ancient mountains that make up the Hercynian massifs; the northern and western plains; and the higher young fold mountains in the south and southeast, including the Alps and the Pyrenees, with their attendant narrow plains. Much of the detailed relief can be attributed geologically to the varying differences in the resistance of rocks to erosion. A great deal of the present landscape detail is due to glaciation during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). France lay outside the range of the great ice sheets that descended upon the northern part of Europe, so the direct sculpting of the land by ice was restricted to the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Vosges, Corsica, and the highest summits of the Massif Central. Just outside these glacial areas, in what are known as periglacial lands, repeated freezing and thawing of unprotected surfaces modified slopes by the movement of waste sheets (formed of shattered bedrock), producing very much the landscape that exists today. Pleistocene periglacial action generated the sheets of the fine windblown limon, or loess, that is the basis of the most fertile lowland soils, and it possibly also created the Landes, a sandy plain in southwestern France. The development of river terraces (flat, raised surfaces alongside valleys) was another characteristic of periglacial action. More …. Score: https://www.britannica.com/place/France

There are some trips that are all around fantastic experiences and then there are some that develop into truly meaningful ones. My trip to southern France fell into the latter for so many reasons. One of those, was because it was my first time traveling solo internationally.

Do 20 czerwca br. polskie samorządy mogą zgłaszać się do konkursu Eco-Miasto w kategoriach. Szczegóły i zgłoszenia na stronie https://www.eco-miasto.pl/pl/. We wspólnym wideo Ambasador Francji Frédéric Billet wraz z Marią Andrzejewską, dyrektor generalną UNEP/GRID-Warszawa zapraszają do udziału

Z okazji Tygodnia Europy Ambasady Francji i Niemiec zapraszają wszystkich zainteresowanych na piknik europejski w ogrodach obu ambasad. Odwiedzający będą mogli m.in. porozmawiać z dyplomatami, zrobić sobie zdjęcie z Ambasadorami Francji i Niemiec, dowiedzieć się, jak wyjechać na studia do Niemiec czy Francji, poznać francuskie i niemiecki instytucje, skosztować kulinarnych specjałów obu krajów i zrelaksować się przy muzyce w wykonaniu młodych talentów

Le 23 mars 2023 a eu lieu la finale du concours de langue française pour les écoles primaires de Mazovie.

Philippe Morisset, attaché de coopération éducative, s’est rendu le 22 mars 2023 à Pszczyna (Silésie) dans le cadre du quatorzième festival francophone qui réunissait onze établissements scolaires régionaux. Il y a rencontré le maire de la ville, son adjointe en charge de l’Éducation ainsi que les enseignants de français.

Le 2 mars 2023, l’Ambassadeur de France en Pologne Frédéric Billet a ouvert la 10ème édition du projet Eco-Miasto. Initié par l’Ambassade de France en Pologne, le projet est co-organisé avec UNEP/GRID Varsovie, et comprend 3 volets : des ateliers d’échanges de bonnes pratiques, un concours à destination des collectivités polonaises et une conférence internationale annuelle, en fin de programmation.

Le réseau des communautés French Tech s’élargit à Varsovie qui avec la French Tech Cracovie appuiera la promotion de l’attractivité de la France auprès des investisseurs et talents tech polonais, en particulier dans les domaines de la transition écologique et de l’innovation (start-ups).

Le 22 janvier 1963, le Général Charles de Gaulle et le Chancelier Konrad Adenauer signaient à Paris un traité historique scellant la réconciliation entre deux nations européennes voisines qui, trois fois en moins de cent ans, s’étaient affrontées dans des guerres particulièrement meurtrières.

Chcesz znaleźć wspólny język ze znajomymi z Paryża, Marsylii, Brukseli czy Montrealu, albo studiować za kilka lat we Francji ? Nasi lektorzy nauczą Cię, jak swobodnie porozumiewać się po francusku! ??? Zostały jeszcze wolne miejsca w grupach dla młodzieży. ❤ Początek zajęć już w przyszłym tygodniu. Więcej informacji

Du 13 janvier au 13 février 2023 les cinéphiles auront accès aux films de la 13e édition composée de longs et courts-métrages francophones présentés dans les plus grands festivals internationaux. Les films disponibles sur MyFrenchFilmFestival.com seront sous-titrés dans les langues suivantes : allemand, anglais, arabe, coréen, espagnol, français, italien, japonais, mandarin, portugais, russe, ukrainien.

Depuis début décembre, l’ambassade vous invite à venir voir sur ses grilles l’exposition « Les Français à Varsovie ». Ce projet du Centre de recherches sur la culture de Varsovie (Centrum Badań nad Kulturą Warszawy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego), porté par Prof. Elżbieta Wichrowksa permet de replonger dans l’histoire de la capitale ?? et de celle des Français qui y ont élu résidence au fil des siècles.

Le 5 décembre 2022, l’Ambassadeur de France a remis l’insigne de chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres à Agata Tuszyńska, théâtrologue, historienne de la littérature, écrivaine et poète. S’intéressant tout particulièrement aux questions de mémoire, Mme Tuszyńska commence sa carrière d’écrivaine par un travail de mémoire personnel sur ses origines juives puis étend ses recherches à l’histoire des Juifs de Pologne en général.

W piątek 28 października 2022 r. Philippe Morisset, attaché ds. współpracy edukacyjnej, wręczył znak LabelFrancEducation pani Małgorzacie Gutowskiej, dyrektorce szkoły podstawowej nr 267 w Warszawie. LabelFrancEducation jest znakiem jakości w dziedzinie edukacji przyznawanym przez francuskie Ministerstwo Europy i Spraw Zagranicznych szkołom z oddziałami dwujęzycznym, które prowadzą nauczania języka francuskiego w zwiększonym wymiarze godzin oraz nauczanie przynajmniej jednego przedmiotu w języku francuskim zgodnie z miejscowymi programami nauczania.