Où habitez-vous en France?

[Douai]

For those of you that live in France, I was wondering exactly where in France you live.Most of my family including my dad live in the region of Nord Pas de Calais (Les Flandres or The Flanders in English).My dad and my grandparents both live in Douai of the département of Nord, which is near Lille,Valenciennes, and Dunkerque.I live in the United States since that is where my mom's house is (my parents are divorced), but I also have dual citizenship, French and American.
Region flag:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/NPCflag.gif
Department flag:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Blason59.PNG

[Nanbawan]

You'll like this.

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=279590

As for me I live in :

France > Brittany > Ille-et-Vilaine > Côte d'Emeraude > Cancale

Well known regional flag :

http://www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/html/2b-frnz-s-01/overmann/baf4/bretagne/G-h-D-bras.GIF

The Ille-et-Vilaine flag not being noteworthy, I'll put the Saint-Malo flag instead.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/huchehault/image118.gif

What's particular about this flag is that it still flies on the top of the city's townhall instead of the French flag. Something that - according to the legend - infuriated General de Gaulle when he came to visit the town during the inauguration of the Rance river tidal power plant in the sixties. Saint-Malo views itself as an independant city but loyal to France...Well, that's the folklore.

Some years ago, some subjects of Her Majesty did replace the townhall's flag with the Union Jack (something the Brits never achieved to do althrough History which gave the city one of its nicknames, the hornet nest). During that day, authorities were flooded with phone calls from outraged citizens !*

My hometown's blason :

http://quaranta1.chez-alice.fr/ecussons/bretagne/cancale-blason.gif
Yes, these are oysters...We're pretty much into oysters here...

* Thanks Dimitri for these anecdotes.

Oh, and our department number is 35.

[sl7vk]

My father in law lives here....

http://www.physik-lexikon.de/wiki/images/6/69/Cotes_d'armor.png

My father's family is from here....

http://www.amicale-genealogie.org/Listes-patronymes/Patronymes_Haute-Savoie/Haute-Savoie.jpg

And my mom is from here.

http://cluaran.free.fr/commun/drapeau/lorraine.gif

[Nanbawan]

My father in law lives here....

http://www.physik-lexikon.de/wiki/images/6/69/Cotes_d'armor.png


Booh ! Down with le 22 ! :p

[sl7vk]

Booh ! Down with le 22 ! :p

You snooty 35'ers will never understand!

[Nanbawan]

You snooty 35'ers will never understand!

Nope ! We never understood the 22 way of driving for instance. The booze doesn't help for sure ! :D :D

[sl7vk]

Nope ! We never understood the 22 way of driving for instance. The booze doesn't help for sure ! :D :D

And to think I thought the reason the 35's were so eratic was years of inhaling pig manure fumes!

[Douai]

My father in law lives here....

http://www.physik-lexikon.de/wiki/images/6/69/Cotes_d'armor.png
Côtes-d'Armor
My father's family is from here....

http://www.amicale-genealogie.org/Listes-patronymes/Patronymes_Haute-Savoie/Haute-Savoie.jpg

Haute-Savoie

And my mom is from here.

Lorraine
http://cluaran.free.fr/commun/drapeau/lorraine.gif



The Lorraine coat of arms looks a little different from the flag you showed me:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Blason_Lorraine_grand.jpg
Nanbawan your regional flag is very well known :p.

[ilv2]

lived a couple months in the capital, 12e. montgallet represent!

[Hexenmeister]

You'll like this.

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=279590

As for me I live in :

France > Brittany > Ille-et-Vilaine > Côte d'Emeraude > Cancale

Well known regional flag :

http://www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/html/2b-frnz-s-01/overmann/baf4/bretagne/G-h-D-bras.GIF



Interesting. I didn't know Betsy Ross was French. ;)

[Herm]

I was born nearby Paris but i live in Bordeaux for more than 10 years now. I feel as a bordelais. ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bordeaux_dot2.png/132px-Bordeaux_dot2.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/4/44/Logo_bordeaux.jpg/120px-Logo_bordeaux.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/a/a3/Blason-bordeaux.gif/140px-Blason-bordeaux.gif

La fleur de Lys stands for France, leopard for Guyenne (region of Bordeaux during the middle age), the moon for the city. Bordeaux harbour is also known as le port de la lune.

And thanks to wikipedia.

[Maou]

Boulogne sur mer, Pas-de-Calais :)

[Pierre-Henri]

Rhine Valley, 30 km or so south of Strasbourg, near the river, a few metres from Germany (though I don't speak german).

[toulousain]

As you can guess, my hometown is Toulouse. http://babel.lexilogos.com/img/toulouse_blason.gif

The region is called Midi Pyrénées. We are very proud of the occitan cross, even if almost nobody speaks occitan !
http://www.anpec.net/images/drapeau_midi_pyrenees.jpg

[Pierre-Henri]

We are very proud of the occitan cross, even if almost nobody speaks occitan !


Seems really easy to me. You just have to add one "P'taing cong" in every sentence.

[Anti-footix]

I currently live in a small town near Bourgoin-Jallieu, 35km away from Lyon. Bourgoin-Jallieu is situated in the heart of the old province of le Dauphiné.

http://membres.lycos.fr/heratlas/a_hermes/dauphine.gif

Bourgoin-Jallieu is well known for its top rugby team, CS-Bourgoin-Jallieu.
http://www.rcavusy.ch/images/logos/bourgoin.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/5/5e/BourgoinJallieu.gif
http://sports.linternaute.com/fr/images/200612/boyet_dau.jpg

People here in the Dauphiné are both ASSE suppoters (particularly in the countryside) and OL supporters with a lot more OL supporters, and espacially now.

but I lived in a lot of different places in France (Versailles where I was born, Blaye near Bordeaux, Le Mans, Caen, Lyon (7ème and 3ème arrondissment), Villeurbanne) and also in other countries (Cap Town, Mexico City and Valencia).
My mother is from Lorraine (from a little town near Metz) and my father Normand (from a little town near Alençon, in Le Perche countryside), so I cannot say I feel like I am a normand or a lorrain, even a francilien, a lyonnais or a guy from Nord-Isère. I just feel French.

[Douai]

I felt it would be a waste of space to start a new thread about a specific French flag so I will ask about it here.I have seen this French flag with a white cross on a blue field several places such as on pictures of French ships during colonial times.I just assumed that maybe it was either a French naval flag or a royal flag of France.Does anyone know exactly where this flag came from and it's use?

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/f/fr~ce1.gif

Link to picture of flag with coat of arms:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/f/fr~ce2.gif

Another picture of flag:
http://homepage.mac.com/michelc1/PR3.jpg

According to this website it was a civil ensign used for French ships:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr~mon.html#pwe
Is that true?

[toulousain]

I don't know what this flag is precisely but it looks like the Quebec flag. Maybe there's a link between these two flags.

[Jayfil]

White crosses were used on most regimental flags in the French army before the Revolution, I think, and can be assumed to be a royalist symbol. The blue is probably a reference to the Virgin Mary (at least it is on the Quebec flag). The flag of Martinique also looks like this, with snakes coiled up in the four quadrants.

Incidentally, my mother's family are from Franche-Comté, but we don't know exactly where. We've been in Quebec and Nouvelle-Angleterre for a few hundred years. :)

[Power_of_foot]

J'ai habite a Paris.
Premirement, j'ai habite a Boulogne Billancourt.
Et Apres j'ai habite a 15 arrondissement.


For those of you that live in France, I was wondering exactly where in France you live.Most of my family including my dad live in the region of Nord Pas de Calais (Les Flandres or The Flanders in English).My dad and my grandparents both live in Douai of the département of Nord, which is near Lille,Valenciennes, and Dunkerque.I live in the United States since that is where my mom's house is (my parents are divorced), but I also have dual citizenship, French and American.
Region flag:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/NPCflag.gif
Department flag:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Blason59.PNG