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From the manufacturer In the color section, France is presented as a whole and recommendations are given when it is better to go there and what you should definitely see. This is followed by basic pre-travel information and other practical tips. The chapters of the guide cover each region in detail: at the beginning there is a list of attractions and a map to make it easier for you to plan your route. The cultural and historical section provides information about the history, art and architecture of France. The phrase book will help you to explain yourself in French if necessary. Encyclopedia of France without pictures, The volume of this book is amazing. The biggest guide book I have ever held in my hands. There is a lot of information: addresses, phone numbers and brief annotations of hotels, restaurants, museums throughout the vast territory of France. This is the main problem: the authors tried to embrace the immensity. Such an interesting country cannot be described in one volume, even if its thickness is one and a half thousand pages, so a kind of compromise turned out. And this despite the fact that from the illustrations in the book there are only maps of cities and regions, and small historical text sketches. This is the first Rough guide in my collection, the English dryness of the presentation of the material is a little annoying. France needs to be written a little more expressively