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on first arriving in France
- driving
Motorway Aires
France is not England
Marianne - a French national symbol,
with French definitive stamps
Marianne part 2: town hall
statues
the calendar of the French
Revolution
viaduct de Millau
the French umbrella &
Aurillac
the forest
as seen by francois mauriac, and today 
places and
playtime
roundabout art of
Les Landes
50 years old:
Citroën DS
the Citroën 2CV:
a French motoring icon
Grand Palais, Paris
mardi gras! carnival in Basque
country
what a hair cut! m & French pop/rock
country life in France: the poultry
fair
short biography of Pierre
(Peter) Abelard
Grand Palais, Paris
dating old postcards
bastide towns
the greatest show on Earth - the Tour
de France
Futuroscope
Vulcania |
As well as the standard Axyz numbering
of French motorways - the A standing for auto route, French motorways
often have a semi-official, or not so official, name/nickname.
Here is a list of these names that abelard.org has discovered so far:
| A1 |
Autoroute du Nord |
| A4 |
Autoroute de l’Est |
| A5 |
L’Orientale
possibly because this motorway runs on a route parallel to that
of the Orient Express train. |
| A6 |
Autoroute du Soleil |
| A7 |
Autoroute du Soleil : of the Sun |
| A8 |
La Provençale |
| A9 |
La Languedocienne - La Catalane |
| A10 |
L’Aquitaine |
| A11 |
L’Océane |
| A13 |
Autoroute de Normandie |
| A14 |
“la nouvelle autoroute de l’ouest”:
the new motorway of the West |
| A16 |
L’Européenne |
| A20 |
L’Occitane |
| A21 |
Rocade Minière |
| A25 |
Autoroute des Ornières:
ornieres
means ‘ruts’. The road surface is not good and the A25
has a 110
kmh maximum speed limit as a result. |
| A26 |
Autoroute des Anglais:
of the English, from the many UK cars to be seen coming from the
Calais ferry port. |
| A30 |
Autoroute de la Vallée de la Fensch |
| A31 |
Lorraine-Bourgogne
This motorway also has two joke nicknames: of the Carambolages-
the pile-ups, and des caravane belges - Belgian caravans. You are
warned. |
| A35 |
Voie Rapide du Piémont des Vosges (VRPV):
Piémont des Vosges rapid road.
The A35 is also known as the Autoroute des Cigognes - the storks.
This area is known for its many stork colonies |
| A36 |
La Comtoise:
going through the Comté-Franc region of north-east France
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| A39 |
Autoroute Verte: green motorway |
| A40 |
Autoroute Blanche / Autoroute des Titans:
White motorway; this motorway runs to the titanic, white alps |
| A41 |
L’Alpine |
| A43 |
Autoroute de la Maurienne |
| A51 |
Autoroute du Val de Durance / des Alpes |
| A55 |
Autoroute du littoral: the coast motorway |
| A61 |
Autoroute des Deux Mers:
of the two seas - the Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
| A62 |
Autoroute des Deux Mers |
| A63 |
Autoroute de la Côte Basque:
of the Basque coast |
| A64 |
La Pyrénéenne |
| A66 |
L’Ariègeoise |
| A68 |
La Tarnaise |
| A71 |
L’Arverne: the region north of the Auvergne region |
| A75 |
La Méridienne |
| A77 |
Autoroute de l'Arbre: of the tree |
| A79 |
La Cévenole |
| A84 |
Autoroute des Estuaires: of the estaries |
| A86 |
Périphérique d'Île de France:
Ile de France ring road (circling Paris) |
| A89 |
-La Transeuropéenne, Autoroute des Présidents:
Transeuropean, or the Presidents’ motorway;Also known s the
empty autoroute because it passes no other major cities between
Bordeaux and Clermont-Ferrand |
| A104 |
La Francilienne |
| A400 |
Autoroute du Chablais |
| A837 |
Autoroute des Oiseaux: of the birds |
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