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.
Molière, the wars and the Eiffel Tower… Answer the questions that made our brain 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?
The first man to parachute was married to the first woman to parachute.
True or false ?
Over time, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Paris becomes more and more white.
True or false ?
Molière did not die on stage (as we usually say) but in his dressing room, 30 minutes after a performance.
True or false ?
In France, the first Sunday in March is Grandmother's Day.
And it is to President René Coty that we owe it.
True or false ?
In Paris, rue Saint-Jacques is one of the oldest in the city.
In the capital, less than 5% of the streets are named after a woman.
True or false ?
During the Revolution, many towns in France had to change their names.
Thus Tremblay-en-France became Tremblay-sans-Culotte.
True or false ?
In 1936, my France knew of political parties which no longer exist today.
Pami them, the Socialist Republicans of the center.
True or false ?
Since the beginning of the 19th century, the house numbers in the streets of Paris depend on the Seine.
True or false ?
Marcel Dassault, the famous founder of the industrial group Dassaut, is called so because in the Resistance his brother had taken as a nickname "Chardasso".
True or false ?
Who designed and designed the Eiffel Tower first?
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