France was a country in Europe before the Great War.
Background[]
In 2060, the oil fields in the Middle East ran dry. Both the European Commonwealth and the Middle Eastern powers were reduced to ruin with no victor.[Non-game 1] The European Commonwealth dissolved into bickering, quarreling nation-states fighting over the world's remaining resources.[2]
Mentions[]
Game | Text | Ref |
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Fallout 2 | The Golden Globes works on a film featuring a French exchange student. | |
Fallout 3 | The Little Lamplighter Eclair and Tenpenny Tower resident Margaret Primrose use the French phrase "bon appetit." | |
Fallout: New Vegas | Mortimer at the Ultra-Luxe uses the French phrase "bon appetit" and his official title is Maître d'. | |
Fallout: New Vegas | The perk "Cherchez La Femme" is a French idiom that means "look for the woman," meaning that at the root of every problem is a woman. | |
Fallout: New Vegas | Le Canard Apartments appear near Westside with the phrase meaning "the duck". | |
Dead Money | Dean Domino mentions that he performed in Paris. | |
Old World Blues | The Sink Central Intelligence Unit uses French phrases/words throughout its dialogue, such as vis-à-vis and apéritif. | |
Fallout 4 | Curie's personality was partially modeled off of a French grad school fling of Kenneth Collins from Versailles. Curie also occasionally uses French words, such as "Monsieur/Madame," "Adieu," "Mon dieu," and "Au revoir." | |
Fallout 4 | The Sole Survivor can use the term "carte blanche" when in dialogue with Proctor Teagan meaning "blank document/card/check", but figuratively means unlimited discretionary power to act. | |
Fallout 4 | A terminal entry written by a member of the Brotherhood on the Prydwen mentions a chess move called "the French Defense." | |
Far Harbor | Andre Michaud speaks French while laying wounded in the Bait Shop of Far Harbor. | |
Nuka-World | Napoleon's ceremonial parades across Europe are mentioned on a plaque in Wixon's Shovel Museum. | |
Fallout 76 | During the Story Time with Miss Nanny random encounter, the Miss Nancy will speak French. | |
Fallout 76 | The Appalachian Liberty Bell was one of 53 cast in France in 1950. | |
Fallout 76 | In the Pioneer Scout codebreaker exam, one of the questions mentions a French diplomat who invented a code; the code in question is the Vigenère cipher, named for Blaise de Vigenère. | |
Fallout 76 | Scout Leader Jaggy mentions the French language. | |
Fallout 76 | In the Pioneer Scout atomics exam, Francium is mentioned as having been discovered in France. | |
Fallout 76 | In a radio advertisement for Appalachian Antiques, heard on Pirate Radio, a fictional Bohemian art show is said to take place in France. | |
Fallout 76 | Esme Rousseau speaks with a strong French accent. Her father was a chef in France before the War. | |
Fallout Tactics | The Cheyenne Mountain facility offers a French language countdown for bomb launches. |
Known locations[]
- Paris (mentioned in Dead Money)
- The Eiffel Tower (mentioned in Fallout Shelter)
- Versailles (mentioned in Fallout 4)
- Amiens (mentioned in Fallout 76)
Appearances[]
France is mentioned in Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons Dead Money and Old World Blues, Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and the Wild Appalachia update, Fallout Shelter, Fallout Tactics, and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The flag of France appears in the Vault Seller's Survival Guide episode Step on the Gas!.
Behind the scenes[]
- A wine named Chateau Montrose was mentioned as being drank once by the U.S. president as of 2077 with no confirmation of it being a French wine.[22] In real life, Château Montrose is a winery in the French region of Bordeaux.
- Similarly, a Atomic Claret vintage is mentioned once, with "claret" being primarily used in British English for red Bordeaux wine.
Gallery[]
A painting of Todd Howard in Fallout 4, parodying a famous painting of Napoleon
A plaque on the West Virginia Liberty Bell
References[]
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Non-game
- ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2054: The Euro-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry... there is no longer a goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to ruin."
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