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Question: Does anyone know anything about medieval france!?
i'm doing a project and i need to know 10 facts about medieval france and i need to know things that people did for fun in france during the medieval times!.

can anyone help!?
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For fun:
sing
dance
play sport
visit each other
play games
attend plays
attend concerts

10 things about medieval france

The Popes were not there!. The Popes were at Avignon, which did not become a part of France officially until the 20th century!.

Dante got his inspiration for "The Inferno" at Les Baux!.

Dante's friend Petrarch lived nearby at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse!.

Guillaume Dufay wrote a mass on a popular tune called "L'Homme Arme!." The tune was so popular that the bar across the street from his house was called that!.

Some cathedrals in France were started in the Middle Ages and not completed until the eighteenth century!.

A paper mill has existed in France since the 1300s, only 100 years after Marco Polo brought paper to Europe!.

Most of the vineyards operating today were originally planted in the Middle Ages!. Later on there was a grape blight and the stocks were restored from grapes exported to the US from France!.

Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake in Paris, in what is now the 3rd arrondissement!.

Jeanne d'Arc was the first female general in European history!. She was burned at the stake!.

In Medieval France at least twenty separate languages were in common use: Celtic, the Occitan family of languages (6 languages), the French family of languages (more than 12 languages), Catalan, and Latin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com