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Title H story, Religion, and Tradition W hile the historical record tells us that France has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, the modern nation that we know of as France only really took shape in the late 1700s, when a far-reaching, profound political revolution established the country’s modern ideas about liberty and equality. CAVE PAINTINGS The first evidence of man in France goes back as far as 40,000 bce . Indeed, there are examples of prehistoric cave paintings dating to

30,000 bce found in Lascaux.

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CHAPTER ONE: HISTORY, RELIGION, AND TRADITION