France

France is a country located in Western Europe, bordering Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain. Led by the French Republic, France has historically served as a major superpower in Europe until World War II, when they were annexed by Nazi Germany and liberated by the Allies of World War II in the final years of the war. France had an approximate population of 67.9 million in 2022. Their capital is Paris, on the river Seine in northeastern France.
The SCP Foundation has a significant presence in France, even having an International Branch, known as the Francophone Branch, overseeing most anomalous activities within France and other French-speaking territories.
== Relevant history==
===Overview===
Early hunter-gatherers migrated to modern France in prehistory, creating cave paintings that have lasted for hundreds of thousands of years into the modern age. Both the Greeks and Gauls colonized modern France in antiquity, though the Roman Republic and its subsequent Empire warred with and captured much of Gallia until Rome's fall in the late 400s CE.
In the aftermath, Roman Gaul collapsed and warred with one another until the Frank Charlemagne conquered the rest of Gaul and much of Western Europe, being crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800. Many dynasties exchanged hands once Charlemagne died and France regressed, warring frequently with Spain and England and fighting in the Crusades. The Frankish Norman invasion of England infused French culture into the British Isles, though the two nations still warred with one another.
As time passed and technology increased, so did culture; the French Renaissance created great works of art and the Age of Enlightenment had many French people question their leaders and what place they had in society. This came to a head when France fell into a deep deficit after assisting the United States in the American Revolutionary War. The people revolted, overthrowing King Louis XVI and establishing a populist government that quickly became corrupt under the megalomaniacal Maximilien Robespierre that resulted in the Reign of Terror which saw many wealthy and influential people killed. This ended with Robespierre's death, though paved the way for Napoleon Bonaparte to become the leader and declare himself Emperor Napoleon I.
Napoleon I would wage many wars with Europe, though was eventually routed and defeated, being sent into exile. He briefly returned to become Emperor and defeat his enemies once more, though was deposed and exiled for good. Many regimes would rise and fall until the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. The Franco-Prussian War soon after led to Alsace-Lorraine falling into the German Empire's hands.
The 20th century saw World War I occur; though the Triple Entente won, northern France was devastated by trench warfare. The Maginot Line was constructed to defend against future German invasion, though Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht bypassed it through the Ardennes and eventually conquered France, resulting in the formation of Vichy France. It was liberated by the Allies of World War II in 1944, though the later 20th century resulted in much of France's colonial territories becoming independent. France became a key part of NATO, preventing communist uprisings until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991.
==Notable locations==
*Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
**Lyon
***Mercure Hotel
*Brittany
**Area-Mem
**Côtes-d'Armor
***Perros-Guirec
****Vallée des Traouïero
**Finistère
***Ushant
**Ille-et-Vilaine
***Paimpont Forest
***Rennes
**Morbihan
***Vannes
*Centre-Val de Loire
**Indre-et-Loire
***Tours
* Grand Est
**Lorraine
***Site-06-3
**Meuse
***Verdun
*Île-de-France
**Paris
***Arc de Triomphe
***Catacombs of Paris
***Eiffel Tower
***Louvre
***Unexplained Location UE-809632
**Yvelines
***Versailles
*Massalia
*Massif Central
**Site-Aleph
***Aleph-Building-01
****Specialized Containment Cell-01
*Mount ██████
**SCP-505-FR
*Normandy
**Manche
***Arrondissement of Cherbourg
****Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
***██████
*Occitania
**Hérault
***Béziers
**Gard
***Alès
**Lozère
***Mende
**Tarn-et-Garonne
***Montauban
*Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
**Alpes-Maritimes
***Nice
**Vaucluse
***Avignon
**Var 
***Embiez
****Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute
***Toulon
*Rhône
*Saône
*Site-Zayin
==Anomalies==
*SCP-082
==External link==
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
==Meta==
===Appearances===
*NTE-2858-Cyan-Blaecca
==References==
Category:Locations
Category:Countries
Category:Europe locations