List of French cheeses

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The following is a list of cheeses from France. France is home to a very large variety of cheese types. An estimate of this number is between 350 and 400.

Contents 1 Protected Designation of Origin 2 List of Protected Designation of Origin French cheeses 3 Other French cheeses include 4 See also 5 Quotes

[edit] Protected Designation of Origin

Under the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, certain well-established cheeses, including many French cheeses, are covered by a Protected Designation of Origin and other, less stringent designations of geographical origin for traditional specialities (for further details see the French Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) system, the Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) system used in Italy, and the Denominación de origen system used in Spain).

A complete list of agricultural products with an EU Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), or Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG), listed alphabetically by nation, is at the Europa Agriculture site.

[edit] List of Protected Designation of Origin French cheeses

Many familiar generic types, like Boursin, are not covered. It may come as a surprise to see varieties of Emmental cheese protected as a French cheese. This list differs from those of AOC status.

• Abondance
• Beaufort
• Bleu d'Auvergne (AOC, Auvergne)
• Bleu des Causses
• Bleu du Haut-Jura, de Gex, de Septmoncel
• Bleu du Vercors
• Brie de Meaux
• Brie de Melun
• Brocciu Corse or Brocciu
• Cancoillotte
• Cantal or Fourme de Cantal or Cantalet (AOC, Auvergne)
• Camembert de Normandie
• Chabichou du Poitou
• Chaource
• Chevrotin
• Comté
• Crottin de Chavignol ou Chavignol
• Emmental de Savoie
• Emmental français est-central
• Époisses de Bourgogne
• Fourme d'Ambert or Fourme de Montbrison (AOC, Auvergne)
• Laguiole
• Langres
• Livarot
• Maroilles or Marolles
• Mont d'or or Vacherin du Haut-Doubs
• Morbier
• Munster or Munster-Géromé
• Neufchâtel
• Ossau-lraty
• Pélardon
• Picodon de l'Ardèche or Picodon de la Drôme
• Pont-l'Évêque
• Pouligny-Saint-Pierre
• Reblochon or Reblochon de Savoie
• Rocamadour
• Roquefort
• Saint-Nectaire (AOC, Auvergne)
• Sainte-Maure de Touraine
• Saint Agur Blue
• Salers (AOC, Auvergne)
• Selles-sur-Cher
• Tomme de Savoie
• Tomme des Pyrénées
• Valençay

[edit] Other French cheeses include

• Banon
• Bleu de Bresse
• Boursin cheese
• Brillat-Savarin
• Broccio Passu
• Cabecou
• Cancoillotte
• Carré de l'Est
• Chaumes cheese
• Coeur de Neufchatel
• Coulommiers
• Gaperon
• Mimolette
• Olivet Cendré
• Port Salut
• Raclette
• Rigotte de Condrieu
• Roue de Brie
• Saint-André
• Saint-Félicien
• Saint-Marcellin
• Tome des Bauges
• Tomme Boudane
• Tomme au Fenouil
• Tomme du Revard
• Vacherin Mont d'Or
• Vieux-Boulogne
• Tomme Butone

[edit] See also

• List of cheeses
• List of Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée cheeses

[edit] Quotes

"Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?"

("How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?")

Charles de Gaulle (from Les Mots du Général, Ernest Mignon (1962))