b'WHAT HAVE DTTHE FRENCHConcorde, a marvel of engineering as the first supersonic passenger aeroplane, DONE FOR US? was built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in Great Britain and France. Concordes first passenger flight was in 1976 and Heads of Department reflect on a majortravelled at Mach 2.04, more than twice the speed of sound. Concorde allowed French contribution to their subject area Edgar Degas, Public domain, people to travel from London to New York via Wikimedia Commons in about three hours until flights stopped in 2003. In November 1986 a British Art & Airways Concorde flew around the Design world, covering 28,238 milesWith so many amazing French artists, designers andin 29 hours, 59 minutes.architects it is difficult to choose just one! Miss HillThere is a long list of very well-known artists including Degas, Czanne, Manet, Renoir, Toulouse- Lautrec, Matisse, Gauguin, Seurat, Morisot, Delaunay and Duchamp, to name but a few. They have been responsible for many different movements in art, too many to name here, including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Impressionism, Post impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism and Symbolism.HistoryThere have also been many significant French designers such as Chanel, Yves St Lauren, Dior,Very few historical periods have been afforded Gaultier, Givenchy and Rabanne.the same attention as that given to the French These artists and designers have all had a significantRevolution of 1789. While it was, regrettably, a impact on the development of the world of art andPierre-Auguste Renoir, Public domain, period of upheaval, bloodshed and anarchy, its design, as well as wider society in general.via Wikimedia Commons long-term significance lives on as an inspiration to those who attempt to bring the masses Ms Fisher together on issues that are dear to them.Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsGeographyFrance and its people have had a great influence on geography with many famous and world-renowned geographers.Charles Marie de La Codamine (1701-1774) is famous for conducting the first exploration of the Amazon rainforest as well as being the first geographer to map the equator and lines ofAlthough, at the time, Edmund Burke refuted the latitude around the world. He was also the firstRevolution in its infancy as an event orchestrated European to discover rubber and its qualities. by the swinish multitudes, it was men like Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845-1918) isThomas Paine who could see further and considered the father of human geography,deeper beyond the noise of 1789 and even the promoting the concept that geography can beviolence that followed on the streets of Paris for By Louis Carrogis Carmontelle.about humankind and their relationship with thethe next few years. Paine chose to highlight the Public Domain, Revolution as one that would deliver a new era https://commons.wikimedia. environment, rather than only physical featuresfor the human race.org/w/index.php?curid=16201134 and events. He even has a form of geography named after him, called Vidalian; the belief andWhether the ideals of the French Revolution study that the lifestyle of a region reflects the Libert, galit, Fraternitwere actually economic, social and psychological identitiesrealised, 1789 remains an event that lives on not imprinted on the landscape. only in French but also world history.Mr Thaper Mr Mohammed22'