The Picture of the Month on the France Portal is about showing a different picture related to France every week. It really is as simple as that.

Below is the archive of featured pictures:

January

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Closeup of the Eiffel Tower's structure.
Photo credit: Sami Huhtala

February

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Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
Photo credit: Mberry

March

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Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (1588-1672) known as Chancellor Séguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660
Image credit: Acquired from the subject's descendants, with the assistance of the Friends of the Louvre association, 1942

April

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Orangery in the ground of the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris
Photo credit: Urban

May

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Napoléon at Battle of Austerlitz , by François Gérard (Versailles).

June

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Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy.
Photo credit: Jakob Voss

July

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Pont du Gard, taken from the North Bank at the level of the water course.
Photo credit: ChrisO

August

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The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard) is a mountain pass in the Alps, located in Savoie, France, to the south of the Mont Blanc Massif, and close to the border with Italy.
Photo credit: Vberger

September

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Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba, from a British engraving, 1814.
Image credit: Published by J. Phillips, No. 32 Charles Street Hampstead road (London), May 1814.

October

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U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of the U.S. Army's First Division on the morning of June 6, 1944 ( D-Day) at Omaha Beach, France
Photo credit: Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard

November

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The "Baie des Tortues" (Turtles Bay) near "La Roche percée" (The Bored Rock) at Bourail in New Caledonia, a " collectivité sui generis" administered by France.
Photo credit: Bananaflo

December

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Looking west along the Champs-Élysées avenue toward the Arc de Triomphe during Christmas season.
Photo credit: Anthony Atkielski