Every day in "Historically yours", the presenter Stéphane Bern and the historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach compete in a historical and unusual quiz.

Would you be able to face them?

To find out, we have concocted thematic quizzes based on the questions asked every day to our two specialists.

The history of France in ten questions.

Great personalities, historic monuments and key dates… Answer the questions that made our presenter racket and laugh our presenter Stéphane Bern and our historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach in the sequence "Bern to be alive", every day in 

Historically yours

, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Europe 1.

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Can you do as well as them? 

  • We say "by car simone" because Simone was the nickname of the small wagon of the first tramway in France, which was put into service in 1838 between Montrond-les-Bains and Montbrison.

    True or false ?

  • Vauban was an engineer, military architect and essayist.

    He will be named Marshal of France by Louis 14. He also gave his name to the police barriers that our friends of the police use when they have to block access to a street.

    But how much does a Vauban barrier in galvanized steel of 2 meters and 14 bars cost?

  • In France, the mustache was compulsory for gendarmes until 1933. True or false?

  • 1949 is the birth of Paris Match and its famous motto "the weight of words, the shock of photos".

    Since 2008, the weekly has changed its formula and it is now "It's true because we tell you".

    True or false ?

  • On line 9 of the Paris metro, there is the Robespierre station which opens onto rue Robespierre.

    True or false ?

  • In 2016, what was there more in France, cathedrals or castorama?

  • In France, the July 14 parade has taken place every year on July 14 since 1880. Except in 1902. True or false?

  • Since 1880, the July 14 parade has taken place every year, as we now know.

    But in 1971, dogs accompanied an army corps for the first time.

    true or false ?

  • If they were still in this world, who would be the oldest?

    Jacques Prévert who said "racism and hatred are not registered in capital sins, and yet they are the worst" or Mother Denis who said "That's true that"?

  • The Bethlehem Chapel is located in France, in Loire Atlantique more precisely, was classified as a historical monument on August 30, 1911. It has a particularity: when it rains, the water flows inside and feeds the holy water fonts.

    True or false ?

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