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What Makes France Special: Heritage, Food and Regional Pride
Versailles, Mont-Saint-Michel, a gastronomy recognised by UNESCO and pride in every region. A guide to what makes France special.
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Paris · 48.8566° N, 2.3522° E
The morning bakery run, the long lunch and a deep pride in every region. Designs for the French city or region you carry with you.

Paris is the city the world knows, but French pride is spread across every region: its food, its landscape, its accent and its way of doing things. Ask someone from France where they are from and the answer is often a region or a town before it is the country.
That regional pride is what makes France such good ground for place designs that are specific rather than generic.
The things people miss when they leave France are often small daily rituals: the walk to the bakery in the morning, the weekly market, the unhurried lunch, the apéritif before dinner with friends. They are habits built around time spent together, which is exactly why they are hard to recreate elsewhere.
Designs for France begin with cities, regions and those daily rituals, drawn and lettered originally. No official emblems, no borrowed marks.
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France · Country Guides
Versailles, Mont-Saint-Michel, a gastronomy recognised by UNESCO and pride in every region. A guide to what makes France special.
· 2 min read
Tell us the city, state or region. The places people ask for most are the ones we design for next.