1. France

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

5. Mount St. Michel

6. Paris, A Roman satellite capital

7. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, AD 742-814, founder of modern France with the Carolingian Empire and the 1 st Holy Roman Emperor.

8. Frankish Carolingian Empire, AD 814

11. Napoleon views the damaged Sphinx

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

15. Queen Marie Antoinette guillotined, 10/16/1793

19. Jardin des Tuileries near the Louvre

20. Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe

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

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

26. Tres Grande Vitesse, the TGV

28. Cote d’Azur

29. Cassis, France

32. Dinan, north of Paris

34. The Low Countries aka BeNeLux Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg France Germany

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

36. Bruges, Belgium

37. Netherlands

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

41. Rotterdam on the Rhine, Europe’s largest port

43. Rotterdam

44. Amsterdam 1544 & 2015

45. 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

47. Polder Dikes by the Zuider Zee

50. Zuider Zee and the Noordoostpolder

51. Noordoostpolder, 2005