• Cinderella didn’t have glass slippers until Parisian Charles Perrault made his own version of an old Chinese tale. It is often thought that this came from a mistranslation in the English version but Perrault specifically refers to glass, not squirrel fur. The confusion comes from the similarities between the words “verre” (glass) and “vair”
• There is still a French law on the books that states it is illegal to call a pig Napoleon
• France has invaded all 8 countries around it
• “La Marseillaise” was composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseille
• In France, around 650 people end up in the hospital each year after slipping on dog poop (seriously?!)
• The first restaurant in the world was said to have opened in Paris in 1765
• Labor union membership is actually lower in France than in the U.S.

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