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Culture in France today draws its strength from a rich cultural heritage spanning - 20 centuries.
Discover its artistic treasures by visiting the Louvres Palace in Paris and palaces, castles and galleries and historical monuments in every corner of France.
Its literary heritage across the centuries from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment to the modern day includes a wealth and variety of writers: playwrights (Racine, Corneille and Molière and more recently Samuel Becket and Ionesco), novelists (Balzac, Zola, Stendhal, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Sartre, Camus,...), poets (Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine...), philosophers (La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, La Fontaine, Pascal, Rousseau...)to name but a few.
Discover and enjoy the cultural scene in France through the numeral festivals and culturals events. Throughout the year, all over France, in towns and villages, temporary or permanent art exhibitions, popular celebrations, theatrical performances, local, national and international festivals provide many opportunities to experience the vitality of France's culture as well as the wealth of its heritage.