The Supreme Council of Antiquities was founded in 1859 by the French scholar and archaeologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821 – 1881), who specialised in what field?
What was the stage name of Jean François Gravelet, a French acrobat who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 on a tightrope 160 feet above the water?
Which of these is a French company founded in 1948 by Émile Camuset that produces sports equipment such as shoes, shorts, and T-shirts?
Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator in the French islands of the West Indian Ocean, may have sparked what saying?
18th century French adventuress Marie du Barry was mistress to Louis XV from 1769 until banished to the country in 1774. How did she die after she returned from a trip to England to sell her jewels in 1793?
