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Fodors France 2016

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Written by locals, Fodors travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
Paris is just the beginning: Frances memorable sightsfrom sprawling Versailles to lofty Mont-St-Michelhave made it mainland Europes most popular destination. This edition delivers cant-miss trips for the more than 2 million Americas who trave to France annually, whether theyre beginners or veterans.
This travel guide includes:
Dozens of full-color maps
Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodors Choice designating our top picks
Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and whats off the beaten path
In-depth breakout features on Notre-Dame, The Seine, and Versailles
Major sights such as Louvre, Chartres, Monets Garden, Versailles, Lyon, Chenonceau, Mont-St-Michel, Strasbourg, Beaune, Eze, St-Tropez, and Aix-en-Provence
Coverage of: Paris;...

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Experience France
Paris
Side Trips from Paris
The Loire Valley
Normandy
Brittany
Champagne Country
Alsace-Lorraine
Burgundy
Lyon and the Alps
Provence
The French Riviera
Monaco
Corsica
The Midi-Pyrenees and Languedoc-Roussillon
The Basque Country, Gascony, And Hautes-Pyrenees
Bordeaux and the Wine Country
The Dordogne
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It may be a clich to say the French fret over their place in the world, but they do. Faced with the ever-dominant Anglo-American axis and hobbled by the global economic crisis, the French are rallying to protect their institutions, their language, and, above all, la vie franaise their treasured lifestyle. Still, polls show the French are optimistic about the futureand theres plenty of good news.

Tourism is thriving, with France maintaining its rank as the worlds top tourist destination, with more than 86 million visitors each year. The French remain leaders in science and technology. France is the worlds leading producer of luxury goods, and fashion remains the nations birthright. Dining in Paris has never been better, with the city experiencing a vibrant emergence of smaller, lower-priced bistros concentrating on quality and terroir, the local bounty that France is famous for.

Turning in Their Stars

Several of Frances acclaimed chefs, including Yannick Allno, and Olivier Roellinger, have handed in their Michelin stars and bowed out of the fast track in favor of smaller, less formal settings. The global crisis and changing lifestyles have deeply influenced a new generation of chefs seeking a more modern approach to cooking, yet still eager to strut their stuff for an educated, ever-appreciative audience. All of these trends have culminated in a movement thats taken France by storm bistronomie.

Well under way since the late 1990s, the bistronomie movement is now in full swing, with exciting new restaurants opening in Paris every month. A hybrid of bistrot and gastronomy, bistronomie broadly defines a new breed of bistro, run by ambitious young chefs who combine rigorous haute cuisine training with a more laid-back, individual, and creative approach. As the irreverent foodie publications Omnivore and Le Fooding viewed as little more than cheeky upstarts when they appeared a decade agohave evolved into major forces behind the movement, people have taken notice.

Bistronomie dovetails with other popular movementslike the locavores, who advocate the use of fresh, local ingredients, and the trend toward natural and biodynamic wines, which are grown without the use of chemical fertilizers and produced with less sulfites. An international roster of passionate young chefs has also invigorated the movement, with no single approach stealing the limelight.

Marriage Equality

After a national discussion that had lasted more than a decade, France passed a law allowing same-sex marriage in 2013. In a country where most people believe the government should stay out of personal relationships, the debate was particularly acrimonious. A group called La Manif Pour Tous staged massive, colorful demonstrations in Paris, Lyon, and other major cities.

Franois Hollandes Socialist government easily won passage of the law, and changed many minds in the process. At the time the law passed, polls found that about 53% of French adults favored same-sex marriage. In 2014, less than a year later, that number had jumped to 61%.

But Hollande also burned a lot of bridges along the way. In 2014, after another round of protests, his government announced that it would not push ahead with legislation to give joint parenting rights to gay couples who had a child together.

MadameMademoiselle

The French government made a long-overdue concession to French feminists, finally enforcing a law that excises the honorific Mademoiselle from official forms, and advising that all women now be referred to as Madame regardless of marital status. What took France so long?

A deep ambivalence on the part of both men and women regarding gender roles certainly plays a part. As does the kind of entrenched inequality with men still earning wages an average of 14% to 28% higher than women, although France has been working on closing the gender pay gap, following EU directives. Attitudes here are slow to change, and with so few female legislators, another area where France lags behind other nations, it seems that French women have their work cut out for them.

Pity the Rich

French millionaires can relaxfor now. Frances prime minister Manuel Valls announced that president Francois Hollandes proposed 75% tax on individuals earning more than 1 million would be abandoned in 2015. The threat of this tax alone is said to have caused wealthy people to leave the country. Grard Depardieu, Frances most famous actor, has already jumped ship. Depardieu, courted by none other than Russias Vladimir Putin, put his 20,000-square-foot mansion in Pariss elegant 7th arrondissement up for sale. Ex-president Nicholas Sarkozy set France abuzz when his plan to vacate Paris and start up a hedge fund with a group of wealthy investors in London was uncovered during a police raid on the scandal-ridden former presidents property.

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