- ...that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
- ...that the Forest of Compiègne was the site of armistice agreements in both the First and the Second World Wars?
- ...that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines?
- ...that Haulotte Group are the third-biggest manufacturer of aerial work platforms (pictured) in the world?
- ...that the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour-Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
- ...that many of the viaducts (pictured) on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord were two-tiered structures, and that the Viaduc de Souzain had a railway junction on the viaduct itself?
- ...that the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day invasion?