France. Carnac, in Brittany, France, 2 miles of standing stones from the Neolithic, 4,500 BC!

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France

Carnac, in Brittany, France, 2 miles of standing stones from the Neolithic, 4,500 BC!

Mount St. Michel

Paris, A Roman satellite capital

Charlemagne, King of the Franks, AD , founder of modern France with the Carolingian Empire and the 1 st Holy Roman Emperor.

Frankish Carolingian Empire, AD 814

Napoleon views the damaged Sphinx

The Revolutionaries storm the Bastille (prison), 7/14/1789

Queen Marie Antoinette guillotined, 10/16/1793

Jardin des Tuileries near the Louvre

Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe

La Defense, from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs Elysees

Millau Span over the Tarn RiverMillau Span over the Tarn River, France’s Central Massif

Tres Grande Vitesse, the TGV

Cote d’Azur

Cassis, France

Dinan, north of Paris

The Low Countries aka BeNeLux Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg France Germany

. Brussels, Belgium, the seat of the European Union.

Bruges, Belgium

Netherlands

Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1653 (Emanuel de Witte) and the Dutch Empire

Rotterdam on the Rhine, Europe’s largest port

Rotterdam

Amsterdam 1544 & 2015

The Hague, north of Rotterdam, coastal South Holland Seat of the International Criminal Court. Established in 2002, in an agreement among >60 countries, known as the Rome Agreement, the ICC prosecutes those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.International Criminal Court

Polder Dikes by the Zuider Zee

Zuider Zee and the Noordoostpolder

Noordoostpolder, 2005

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