WikiProject France

Welcome to WikiProject France. We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of France and Monaco related articles, through collaboration and cooperation. If you would like to join us, please add your username to the members list.

WikiProject France concerns coordination, creation, development, and organization of efforts on all articles related to France and Monaco.

1. Get this project organized.
2. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to France/Monaco. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
3. To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of France/Monaco in the English language.
4. Build all Top Importance France Articles to Good Article status, at a minimum (FA is preferred). Current progress: 7 out of 93 articles meet this criteria.

Departments

Departments

Contents 

The contents department develops and maintains the navigation pages that serve the subject "France", in collaboration with the various contents projects (OOK, Lists, Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries, and Index).

Assessment 

The assessment department assesses and tracks all project related articles. If you have made significant contributions to an article, feel free to list at this page.

Categorisation 

The categorisation department works toward increasing organisation of the project via placing articles in correct categories.

Cleanup

This department focuses on the clean up and copy editing of articles tagged in need of attention.

Outreach

Discussion and implementation of outreach strategies, including discussion of the next newsletter.

Photo requests 

Please add any requested photos to this list.

Review Department  

The Review department aims to create a centralized area for all project-related articles currently undergoing either formal review (Good Article, Featured Article) or informal review (Wikiproject France Peer Review). This is the place to get information about listing an article for review.

Task forces

French cinema task force 

Task force of WikiProject Films.

French military history task force 

Task force of WikiProject Military history.

Paris 

Task force aims to develop, maintain, and improve articles relating to the capital.

WikiProjects

WikiProject Balzac 

Related WikiProject.

WikiProject French communes 

Child WikiProject.

WikiProject Monaco 

Related WikiProject.

Work groups

Adelie Land work group 

Work group of WikiProject Antarctica.

French Africa work group 

Work group of WikiProject Africa.

French Guiana work group 

Work group of WikiProject South America.

French Polynesia work group 

Work group of WikiProject Polynesia.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon work group 

Work group of WikiProject Caribbean.

Article Alerts

Proposed deletion

• 26 Nov 2009 – Ludovic Gamboa (talk) has been deleted.
• 21 Nov 2009 – Anthony Babikian (talk) has been deleted.
• 21 Nov 2009 – Sofiane Kheyari (talk) has been deleted.
• 21 Nov 2009 – Sofiane Mezraoui (talk) has been deleted.
• 21 Nov 2009 – Eric Axelson (talk) proposed for deletion by Omarcheeseboro.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Guillaume Lecacheur (talk) has been deleted.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Karim Haderbache (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

• 25 Nov 2009 – Henri Lurie (talk) nominated for deletion by Scoop100; see discussion.
• 24 Nov 2009 – Edmond Huet (talk) nominated for deletion by Scoop100; see discussion.
• 22 Nov 2009 – Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

• 25 Nov 2009 – Boletus edulis (talk) is nominated by Casliber.

Featured list candidates

• 26 Nov 2009 – List of French Open Men's Singles champions (talk) is not promoted.

Good article nominations

• 26 Nov 2009 – Battle of Carillon (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 25 Nov 2009 – Louis XVIII of France (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Laurinavicius.
• 25 Nov 2009 – Battle of Ostrach (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 19 Nov 2009 – Breton (horse) (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 18 Nov 2009 – Boletus edulis (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 16 Nov 2009 – Constitutional Council of France (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
• 5 Nov 2009 – World War II (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by NorwegianBlue (on hold); see discussion.
• 8 Oct 2009 – Army of the Danube (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Auntieruth55.
• 5 Oct 2009 – Erromintxela (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Akerbeltz.
• 21 Sep 2009 – Henri-Georges Clouzot (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Andrzejbanas.

Requested moves

• 25 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Poteaux-sur-solle (talk) to Post-on-sill by Kevlar67; see discussion.
• 22 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Roch (talk) to Saint Roch by Kotniski; see discussion.

Did you know

• 20 Nov 2009 – A fact from Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Rouffach (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 16 Nov 2009 – A fact from Louis-Nicolas Robert (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 15 Nov 2009 – A fact from Léon Levavasseur (talk) appeared on the main page.

Bounty board

• 24 May 2009 – Bounty for bringing Albertville (talk) to FA status: $20 donation by Hektor.
• 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing World War I (talk) to FA status: US$250 donation by Roger Davies (expires on 31 December 2009).

Other news

• 23 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Quick Help

Style Guides

Do you need help with the proper format of France/French terms or translations? See the Manual of Style links below:

• The France & French-related Manual of Style covers:

1. General Rules
2. Orthography, covers accents, ligatures, and sorting.
3. Naming Conventions, including noble titles, works of art, and place names.
4. Administrative Conventions, covers political and geographic divisions within France.
5. Transportation Conventions, Rail/Tram naming and terms (inlcuding SNCF related guidelines)

Announcements and News

• Wikipedia Release Version 0.7 will soon be ported to DVD. Some articles relating to the project were selected to appear. A number of articles have various clean-up tags, listed here. Please help out by addressing the concerns.
• We are in the process of creating a new review department, in order to provide a central location for all France related reviews at Peer Review, Good Articles, or Featured Articles. The initiation of an A-class review departement has also been proposed.
• Daft Punk became a Good Article.
• Louvre Abu Dhabi became a Good Article.
• The Project banner template has been updated with a parameter allowing articles within the scope of the Paris task force to be tagged as such. To tag an article, add |tf=Paris to the banner.

Open Reviews and Assessments

See the Review Department for discussion and full-listing of articles under review, or for information about listing an article for review. Please check the article alerts page for any unincorporated updates.

• Featured Article Candidates:

1. AMX-30

• Featured List Candidates:
• Good Article Nominations:

1. Henri-Georges Clouzot

• Peer Reviews:

1. John Calvin (review)

• Featured Article Review: French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools and Lazare Ponticelli were listed at Featured Article Review.
• Articles currently requesting assessment: Service France Domaine, please add this to the France Wikiproject and give an initial assessment.
• Articles for Deletion: Tanit (yacht) has been nominated for deletion or merger. Comments appreciated.

• Categories for Discussion: None listed

Open Tasks

• Place {{WikiProject France}} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project.
• Monitor the recent changes for improvements which might raise the assessment level, damages to the articles, and vandalism
• Respond and ameliorate articles listed for cleanup, copyediting, citations, references, orignial research, etc.
• Respond in your area of expertise to editor's requesting Reviews of the project's articles.
• The following articles are in need of expert attention, if you can provide this, please do:
  • Basque language - Being and Nothingness - Girondist
• Maintain and update the Template:France tasks (after completing a task, please replace the old with a new one by editing this template):

Wikipedia:France-related tasks You can help! Vous pouvez aider! Here are some France related tasks you can do: Requests: Gérard Garouste - Émile Peynot - more... Translation from French:See TRANSWIKI/French for details. fr:Formation territoriale de la France métropolitaine to Territorial formation of France - Loi constitutionnelle du 23 juillet 2008 to French constitutional law of 23 July 2008 - fr:Arbel Fauvet Rail to Arbel Fauvet Rail - fr:Merir to Merir - more... Stubs: Category:France stubs Category sorting: Category:French writers - Category:History of France - Category:Uncategorised France articles Verify or Factual Accuracy: Gui de Ceriz - Rennes-le-Château - Simone Weil Update: Bischwiller - - NPOV : Foreign relations of France (Middle East section) - Torture during the Algerian War - François Mitterrand - Jean-Marie_Le_Pen - John Calvin - Marie Antoinette Wikify: Dida Diafat - French architecture Citations: Vichy France (section) - Falaise pocket - Charles de Gaulle - Vaux-le-Vicomte - Economy of France - Louisiana Purchase - Merge: - Bourbon Family Compact Copyedit, Style or Cleanup: Antoine de la Sale - Albert Camus - Breton language - Claude Debussy - French Revolution - French language - Jean-Paul Sartre - Napoleon III of France - Nicolas Sarkozy - Picardie - Rennes - Sarah Bernhardt - Toulouse - Girondist - Louis XIV Expand: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - Vaux-le-Vicomte - Basque Language - Being and Nothingness France-related Wikiprojects: Wikipedia:WikiProject France view • edit • discuss • history • watch

Article Status

Current Article Statistics

France articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	7	8	4	11	32
	FL	1			1		2
	A		1		1	2	4
	GA	3	8	14	12	32	69
	B	29	108	122	57	212	528
	C	21	49	95	60	142	367
	Start	8	113	349	816	3204	4490
	Stub	4	67	319	36007	13130	49527
	List		4	40	23	689	756
	Assessed	68	357	947	36981	17422	55775
	Unassessed	3	7	5	119	12269	12403
	Total	71	364	952	37100	29691	68178

Articles needing attention

See here for a complete list of France related articles that need attention. Please respond to these requests if you're able.

Featured Content

These Featured articles have been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. They have not necessarily been improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These articles may be chosen as "Article of the month" or "Personality of the month" on the France portal.

The Featured images are chosen by the Wikipedia community because they are beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. France-related featured pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Gallery. Note: This list includes images from Commons.

A Featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A featured topic represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other.

Current Featured articles

This list might be out of date! Category:FA-Class France articles shows the list in real time.

Education

• French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools

Landmarks

• Prince's Palace of Monaco

Transport

• TGV

History

• Battle of Austerlitz
• Italian War of 1521-1526
• Military history of France
• War of the League of Cambrai

Society and Politics

• Médecins Sans Frontières

Geography

People

• Alain Prost
• Blaise Pascal
• Honoré de Balzac
• James Joyce
• Joan of Arc
• Le Père Goriot
• Michel Foucault
• Natalie Clifford Barney
• Nostradamus
• Olivier Messiaen
• Ramón Emeterio Betances
• Samuel Beckett
• Sophie Blanchard
• Thierry Henry

Sports

• France national rugby union team

Former Featured articles

• Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (demoted 7/07)
• Battle of Alesia (demoted 3/07)
• Battle of Normandy (demoted 9/07)
• Battle of the Somme (demoted 2/07)
• Franks
• Louis XIV of France (demoted 10/06)
• Montparnasse
• Suzanne Lenglen

Current Wikipedia Featured images

Notre Dame de Paris.	The Arc de Triomphe.	The Louvre.	Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
Napoleon's exile to Elba	D-Day	Montgolfier Brothers' first balloon flight	Front page of Emile Zola's famous letter
Jean-Paul Marat's acquittal	Sophie Blanchard	Hélène Dutrieu	Jules Massenet's opera Le Cid, Act 2, Scene 3, in the original production, as covered in L'Illustration.
Le Cid, Act 3, Scene 6.	Marguerite of Navarre, from an edition of the Heptaméron.	Georges Bizet's opera, Carmen	French engraver Gustave Doré's engraving of Noah's flood.
Gustave Doré, Dante's Inferno, Canto III: Charon	Gustave Doré, Dante's Inferno, Canto VII: The Hoarders and Wasters	Gustave Doré, Dante's Inferno, Canto XXXI: Titans and Giants	Gustave Doré, Don Quixote.

Former Wikipedia Featured images

Current Commons Featured images

The European Parliament at Strasbourg.	A Bridge at Strasbourg.	The Eiffel Tower at sunrise from the Trocadero.	The first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
Map of principal French Cities.	The Louvre.	A panorama of the Village of Socoa, Pyrénées Atlantiques,.	Male Capra aegagrus hircus, in Provence near Verdon.
Homeless man at Paris. 2nd Place at the 2006 Commons picture of the Year.	Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower.	Painting from the French Revolution.	A Solar eclips in 1999.
Train wreck at Montparnasse in 1895.	The Grande Arche at La Défense.	The Mont Saint Michel.	Illustration of the France-Prussian War.
Map of the Pyrenees.	The Mont Blanc.	Napoleon III after his death.	The Parisians go to man the barricades against Prussia after the death of Napoleon III.
The Louvre and its Glass Pyramid.	The Mont Blanc.	Again another image of the Mont Blanc.	The Luxembourg Palace and Gardens.
The Aiguille du Midi which is next to the ... Mont Blanc!	The Argentiere Glacier on the slopes of the ... Mont Blanc.	The Orangerie at Versailles Palace.

Featured sounds

A chantar m'er

A 12th century song by Comtessa Beatritz de Dia, "A Chantar" is the only existing song by a trobairitz which survives with its music.

Au Clair de la Lune

This 1860 phonautogram by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is the earliest known recording of the human voice, though it was never intended to be played back.

Le régiment de Sambre et Meuse

An 1870 French song about the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse by Robert Planquette and Paul Cézano. Sung by Pierre d'Assy.

Victimae Paschali Laudes

The 11th-century "Victimae Paschali Laudes", traditionally attributed to Wipo of Burgundy, is one of the few traditional Latin "sequences" still used by the Roman Catholic Church today.

Dieu du bonheur, Dieu plein du charmes...

A polacca from Le trompeur trompé, an 1800 opéra comique by Pierre Gaveaux and François Bernard-Valville. Performed on historical instruments, with Montserrat Alavedra as Agathe.

Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux

From Jules Massenet's Le Cid (1885). Sung by Marguerite Sylva in 1910 for Edison Records.

O souverain, O juge, O père!

From Jules Massenet's Le Cid (1885). Sung by Enrico Caruso in 1916 for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Manon! avez-vous peur...On l'appelle Manon

1912 recording by Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar of a scene from Act II of Jules Massenet's Manon (1884).

1859 – Faust: "O merveille! ... A moi les plaisirs"

The Act I finale of Charles Gounod's Faust (1859), sung by Enrico Caruso and Marcel Journet in 1910.

1875 – Carmen: Chanson du toréador

Pasquale Amato's 1911 rendition of the Toréador's song from Georges Bizet's Carmen (1875).

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Sets

Charles Gounod's Petite Symphonie pour neuf instruments à vent (Little Symphony for Nine Woodwinds). Performed by the Soni Ventorum.

I. Adagio, allegro

II: Andante cantabile

III: Scherzo (Allegro moderato)

IV: Finale (Allegretto)

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The ballet music by Jean-Baptiste Lully from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Molière's 1670 comédie-ballet (that is, a ballet broken up by spoken scenes). This version was performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra in 2007.

1. Ouverture

2. Gravement

3. Sarabande

4. Bouree

5. Gaillarde Canarie

6. Gavotte

7. Loure

8. Air des Espagnoles

9. Menuet 1 and 2

10. Chaconne des Scaramouche, Trivelins

11. Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs

Featured lists

• List of French monarchs

Featured topics

• none

Featured portals

• France Portal
• Basque Portal

Good articles

This list might be out of date! Category:GA-Class France articles shows the list in real time.

Education

Geography

• Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes

Landmarks

• Pavillon de Flore

Transport

History

• Betelgeuse incident
• Pied-noir

Society and Politics

War and military

• Battle of Amiens
• Battle of France
• Battle of Quebec (1690)
• Battle of Tours
• Battle of Waterloo
• Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe
• Fort Senneville
• Morea expedition
• NATO
• Operation Entebbe

People

• Alizée
• Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
• Charlemagne
• Charles Heidsieck
• Claude Vorilhon
• Émile Lemoine
• Eva Green
• Henri Brocard
• Jean-Claude Mézières
• John Calvin
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Marcel Lefebvre
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Tony Parker
• Trobairitz

Culture, Literature and the Arts

• Carménère
• Champagne (wine region)
• Eyes Without a Face
• French cuisine
• Great French Wine Blight
• Languedoc wine
• Louvre Abu Dhabi
• Pascal's Wager
• Valérian and Laureline

Sports

• 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Monaco Grand Prix

Peer review/Featured article candidates

Following is a list of France-related featured article candidates. Please contribute toward making them featured articles by voting and copyediting to remedy potential objections.

Recent featured article candidates:

• World War II
• Peugeot 205
• Marie Antoinette

Following is a list of France-related articles submitted for peer review (an important step toward becoming a featured article). Please contribute by copy editing to remedy potential objections.

• Angevin Empire - Jan 2007
• DADVSI
• Paris
• French people
• Battle of Amiens

Templates, Infoboxes, Userboxes, and Ads

Userboxes and medals

• Members can add one of the following userboxes to their userpage.
• There are at this time two barnstars, one for France and the other for French Guiana, which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles in their specific field. A template is available for awarding a barnstar to users, more information about it is available at WikiProject France/Barnstar.

				{{User WikiProject France}} This user is a member of WikiProject France.
				{{User WikiProject France-2}} This user is a member of WikiProject France.
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Resources

Resources

Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union
• Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements (completed)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/French cinema task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/French military history task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Balzac
• Wikipedia:WikiProject French dialects

Portals

• Portal:European Union
• Portal:France
• Portal:French and Francophone literature
• Portal:Military history of France
• Portal:Paris

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

External links

Directories

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - France's country page
• CIA - The World Factbook
• Official site of the French public service - Contains many links to various administrations and institutions
• Parks in France - National parks, nature parks, reserves and other protected areas in France

Tourism, history, gastronomy

• (French) The picturesque France

Maps and travel guides

• France travel guide from Wikitravel
• Highresolution maps of france

Photos

• Photos of Paris
• Photos of France (Paris, Rennes, Savoie, Annecy)
• Other photos of France...
• 2000 photos of the most important cities in France