The Abbey of Senanque, located in Provence, Vaucluse, Gordes village.

Looking east along the Champs-Élysées from the top of the Arc de Triomphe.

The Battle of Normandy (D-Day).

The first photograph is considered to be this image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce.

A posing starlette at the Cannes Film Festival.

The chapel of the Palace of Versailles.

The "Promenade des Anglais" in Nice.

View of Paris from the Notre-Dame showing the River Seine and the Eiffel Tower.

The Basilica of Mary Magdalene in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.

The Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Church is a Catholic church in Nice, France.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Statue of the "Maid of Orleans", Joan of Arc.

The spire of Mont Saint Michel.

The Château de Chambord in Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France.

Panorama of the fortified city of Carcassonne.

The European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.

Panoramic shot of the interior of the Panthéon.

A homeless man (a "sans domicile fixe") in Paris.

The Eiffel Tower struck by lightening.

The Pont d'Avignon.

Eugène Delacroix's painting of Liberty Guiding the People.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's painting of Dante And Virgil In Hell (1850).

A train wreck at the Gare Montparnasse in 1895.

Trench warfare in the Somme during World War I.

An 1877 photo of Agen, France, by Louis Ducos du Hauron.

Venus de Milo in the Louvre museum.

The Orangerie of the Palace of Versailles.

The Barrage Vauban in Strasbourg, France.

Little St Bernard Pass.

Tuamotus, French Polynesia.

Daguerotype of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris.