COUNTRIES, TOWNS, CITIES
France
1507 ..... the FIRST stone bridge in Paris was the Pont Nôtre Dame
1667 ..... Paris police were the FIRST police force to become independent of the judiciary
1698 ..... the Paris police force moved into the world's FIRST police station
1792 ..... FIRST country to officially adopt a national anthem when La Marseillaise was composed in this year
1829 ..... the Paris police became the world's FIRST uniformed force
1843 ..... world's FIRST commercial cigarette factory - the Manufacture Francaise des Tabacs ..... 1856 ..... the Continents FIRST golf club was founded at Pau in South West France and later France's FIRST gas-lamps and FIRST sewer system
1868 ..... Paris ..... the world's FIRST organized cycle race occurred
1903 ..... the FIRST nation to adopt standardized traffic signs throughout the country
1908 ..... the world's FIRST flying school was founded at Pau in South West France by the Wright brothers 2007
..... the FIRST country to open its classified files on UFOs to the public when its space agency opened a website logging more than 1600 sightings of OVNIs ( objets volants non-identifies) since 1954
..... Le Musee du Pruneau Gourmand ..... near Agen in South-West France, the world's FIRST and so far only prune museum and houses a unique collection of prune-related paraphernalia
..... FIRST country to employ the metric system