Kids’ Corner Answers

Answers: Rouen

1. Joan of Arc.

2. The locals paid for the tower in exchange for the right to eat butter during Lent.

3. Pont Gustave-Flaubert.

4. They preferred to paint outdoors.

Answers: Honfleur

1. Grey velvet. His nickname was the “Velvet Gentleman.”

2. Umbrellas. There were over a 100 in his one room flat when he died.

3. Unopened letters.

Answers: The D-Day Beaches

1. It stands for “day” and was a common military term for the beginning of an operation.

2. Two, but the one for Omaha Beach was wrecked in a storm.

3. They jumped out of gliders, which made no noise.

4. The six field guns were fakes! The Germans had moved the real guns, fearing they’d be bombed, but the rangers found them just inland and damaged them.

Answers: Falaise

1. He was only seven – his father, Robert, died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

2. He took off his helmet and rode among his troops, shouting, “I live! I fight on! We shall conquer yet!”.

3. He fell off his horse while hunting in 1087.

Answer: Mont-St-Michel

The points form a perfectly straight line.

Answers: St-Malo

1. An ermine.

2. A corsair, Robert Surcouf.

3. Smuggling. During the Revolution they were used as a prison.

Answers: Océanopolis, Brest

1. All use wings for swimming instead of flying; have blubber to stay warm; swim, waddle and toboggan on their bellies.

2. Whale sharks, which grow to 12 m (40 ft) long and eat plankton.

3. The ocean. It produces over half of the earth’s oxygen.

Answers: Douarnenez

1. They were carved out of tree trunks.

2. Chaloupes.

3. Flying fish.

Answers: Standing Stones of Carnac

1. Scholars think the shield is a stylized “mother goddess” figure.

2. Neolithic people were farmers and the axe symbolized power over plants.

3. Could be a shepherd’s crook (they kept sheep, goats and cows). But some say it was a symbol of a ruler of people.

4. Bull horns probably. Bulls had a special status.

5. Snakes, which fascinated ancient people. Or they could just be zigzags.

Answers: Pont-Aven

1. The new railroads made it easy to reach from Paris. It was beautiful and picturesque, with its residents in their traditional costumes. It also had cheap motels.

2. The artists stayed in the same hotels, painted together and discussed their work.

3. Landscapes, rural life, people.

4. The artists outlined them in black.

Answers: Les Machines de l’Île, Nantes

1. 35.

2. American tulipwood.

3. Two giant herons. They have baskets under their wings for people to ride in.

Answers: Tours

1. 20 kg (44 lb) of pasta dough.

2. Plumbing.

3. Slate.

Answer: Château d’Ussé

The cedar.

Answers : Château de Chenonceau

1. Yes, put your hand – right or left – on the side of the passage and keep it there. Eventually, you will get out, though you will have to go through every passage between you and the exit, and in and out of many dead ends.
2. Copper.