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C. Seine-Port is located on a bend of the Seine River, which also runs through the city of Paris about 23 miles north of the village. Police cannot enforce the smartphone scrolling ban and charter on children’s screen use, but the moves are designed to discourage the overuse of the devices in the village of fewer than 2,000 people.
A. The word France is derived from “the land of the Franks,” a German-speaking people from the lower Rhine region who began their conquests after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Franks in what is now France eventually adopted the local version of Roman Latin that evolved into modern French.
B. The Seine drains into the English Channel port city of Le Havre. Metropolitan France is bordered by the Channel to the northwest; the North Sea to the north; Belgium and Luxembourg to the northeast; Germany and Switzerland to the east; Italy, Monaco and the Mediterranean Sea to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the southwest; and the Atlantic Ocean and Bay of Biscay to the west.
C. Before paying homage to the Frankish king, Rollo and his Viking allies had already conquered the territory of what came to called Normandy for their Norseman heritage. Like the Franks before them, the new conquerors gave up speaking a Germanic variation to adopt the local Gallo-Romance language. Rollo’s descendant William the Conqueror later crossed the Channel to take over England.