Any book tagged with this topic is about the history of France or discusses a significant number of historical figures and events which took place in France. France is a large country in continental Europe, bordered by Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, and Belgium, among others. France is well known for prehistoric cave paintings, Gaul, the Merovingian and Carolingian ruling dynasties, Joan of Arc, the French Revolution, and the Louvre, to name a few.