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Column and photograph by Thomas Sittler
If I should name one thing which most particularly
distinguishes France from its European neighbors, it would be the especially rich and cohesive
cultural heritage that arguably 1,500 years of
existence as a sovereign state has left us. Unlike
its neighbors Germany or Italy, for example, who
before the 19th century did not exist as a unit but
rather as a multitude of small independent entities; France has since the reign of Clovis been a
mainstay of the western European map.
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