France is a center of culture, art and cuisine. The greatest artists lived and worked in Paris. It is today the world capital of fashion. Versailles is a palace copied all over Europe. French cuisine is imitated all over the world, and French wines are respected by every connoisseur.
The French Republic is not limited to a territory in Europe. France also includes overseas territories on other continents, remnants of the former colonial empire. These are mainly islands in the Caribbean, in the Pacific, in the Atlantic near Newfoundland, and in the Indian Ocean.
