List of cultural icons of France
Tricolore
Mont Saint Michel
Edith Piaf
d'Artagnan
This List of cultural icons of France is a list of links to potential cultural icons of France.
Animals
- Abondance (cattle), Alsace hamster , Ariegeois, Aubrac cattle
- Basque Shepherd Dog, Basset Artésien Normand, Basset Bleu de Gascogne, Basset Fauve de Bretagne, Beauceron, Berger Picard, Braque d'Auvergne, Braque du Bourbonnais, Bresse (chicken), Briand
- Camargue horse, Charolais cattle
- Blue Picardy Spaniel
- Faverolles (chicken), French Bulldog, French Spaniel
- Grand Bleu de Gascogne, Great Pyrenees,
- Houdan (chicken), La Flèche, Maine-Anjou (cattle), Ouessant (sheep)
- Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen, Picardy Spaniel, Pyrenean Shepherd
- Rouen Duck
Art, craft
Main article: French art
- François Boucher, Bernard Buffet
- Paul Cézanne , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet
- Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas , Eugène Delacroix, Robert Delaunay, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Paul Gauguin , Giverny
- René Lalique , Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger
- Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Mona Lisa, Claude Monet
- Camille Pissarro, Nicolas Poussin
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin
- Niki de Saint Phalle , Georges Seurat
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges de La Tour
- Maurice Utrillo
- Antoine Watteau
Buildings and structures
- Arc de Triomphe
- Centre Pompidou , Château de Chambord, Château Gaillard, Chinon
- Eiffel Tower
- French architecture
- Gîte
- La Défense , Les Invalides, Louvre, Louvre Pyramid
- Mont-Saint-Michel>in Basse-Normandie, Musée d'Orsay
- Notre-Dame d'Amiens, Notre-Dame de Chartres, Notre Dame de Paris, Notre-Dame de Reims
- Palace of Versailles, Palais des Papes, Pont de Normandie
- Saint Denis Basilica, Sainte-Chapelle
- Viaduc de Millau
Dress, fashion
- Pierre Balmain, Coco Chanel , , couturier, Christian Dior , Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler, Sonia Rykiel, Yves Saint Laurent , Philippe Starck , Louis Vuitton, Lacoste
Emblems and symbols
Festivals
Food and drink
- Appellation d'origine contrôlée
- Bistro, Raymond Blanc , Paul Bocuse , Bordeaux wine , Bourgogne wine
- Camembert , Champagne (wine), Crêpe, Croissant, Cuisine of France
- Alain Ducasse
- Auguste Escoffier
- Galette , Guide Michelin
- Haute cuisine
- Jean-Christophe Novelli
- Albert Roux, Michel Roux
- Tapenade
- Cognac
Government
- Armée de Terre, Armée de l'Air, Gendarmerie Nationale, Marine Nationale
- Communes of France, Constitution of France, Constitutional Council of France, Court of Cassation
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Departments of France, Deputy
- Elections in France, Élysée Palace
- French Economic and Social Council, French Republic, French Socialist Party, Front National
- Journal Officiel de la République Française, Justice in France
- Law of France
- Municipalities of France
- Napoleonic Code, National Assembly of France
- Parliament of France, Political parties in France, President of the French Republic , Prime Minister of France
- Rally for the Republic Rassemblement pour la République, RPR, Regions of France
- Secularism , Senate of France
- Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
History and legend
- Algerian War, Ancien Régime, Auld Alliance
- Battle of Waterloo
- Hugh Capet, Capetian, Cardinal Richelieu, Charlemagne , Clovis, Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Dreyfus affair
- Empress Josephine,
- Field of the Cloth of Gold, Fifth Republic, French Revolution, First Empire, Fourth Republic, Franco-Prussian War, French Indochina
- Charles de Gaulle
- House of Bourbon, House of Valois
- July Monarchy
- Louis XIV, Louis XVI
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Restauration
- Second Empire
- Third Republic, Treaty of Verdun
- Vichy France
Holidays
- Holidays in France
Industry
- Air France, Airbus, Airbus A400M
- André Citroën
- EDF, Electricité de France
- Gaz de France
- André Peugeot
- Marcel Renault
- France Télécom
Language
- Académie française , Alsatian, Basque, Breton, Català, Corsu, Francophonie , French, International Francophone Organisation, Langue d'Oc, Occitan, Provençal, Romance, Toubon Law
Literature, newspapers, comics
- Alain Robbe-Grillet , Alain-Fournier, Jean Anouilh, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Astérix
- Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire , Pierre Beaumarchais, Simone de Beauvoir , Cyrano de Bergerac, Georges Bernanos, André Breton
- Albert Camus, Le Canard enchaîné, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Chansons de geste, Chrétien de Troyes, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Paul Claudel, J. M. G. Le Clézio , Jean Cocteau, Colette, Pierre Corneille
- René Descartes, Denis Diderot, Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, fils, Marguerite Duras
- Les Échos, Paul Éluard, L'Express,
- Georges Feydeau, Le Figaro, Gustave Flaubert, Jean de La Fontaine, Anatole France
- Romain Gary, Théophile Gautier, Jean Genet, André Gide, Jean Giono, Jean Giraudoux, René Goscinny
- Jean-Edern Hallier, Victor Hugo , Eugène Ionesco
- Jean de La Fontaine, Alphonse de Lamartine, Libération ,
- Stéphane Mallarmé, André Malraux, Guy de Maupassant, François Mauriac, Molière, , Le Monde
- Man in the Iron Mask, Marcel Pagnol, Blaise Pascal, Charles Perrault, Jacques Prévert, Marcel Proust
- Le Nouvel Observateur
- Le Petit Prince, Prix Goncourt
- François Rabelais, Jean Racine, Arthur Rimbaud, Roman de la Rose, Roman de Renart, Reynard, Edmond Rostand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Françoise Sagan , Jean-Paul Sartre, The Song of Roland, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stendhal
- Tristan and Iseult
- Albert Uderzo
- Paul Valéry, Paul Verlaine, Jules Verne, Boris Vian, François Villon, Voltaire
- Émile Zola
Music
- Music of France
- Richard Anthony, Charles Aznavour
- Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud, Hector Berlioz , Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Lucienne Boyer, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Maurice Chevalier, François Couperin
- Dalida, Claude Debussy , Sacha Distel , Paul Dukas, Jacques Dutronc
- Gabriel Fauré, Claude François, César Franck
- Serge Gainsbourg , Stéphane Grappelli , Juliette Gréco
- Johnny Hallyday, Françoise Hardy
- Jean Michel Jarre , Maurice Jarre
- Michel Legrand, Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Mireille Mathieu, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Mistinguett, Yves Montand
- Yannick Noah
- Jacques Offenbach
- Édith Piaf , Francis Poulenc
- Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel , Tino Rossi, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- Jean Sablon, Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Salvador , Erik Satie, Alan Stivell
- Charles Trenet , Troubadour, Trouvère
- Sylvie Vartan
- Hector Zazou
People
- List of French people
- Abbé Pierre, Pierre Abélard, Yann Arthus-Bertrand
- Raymond Barre, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson, Bernard of Clairvaux, Louis Blériot, Léon Blum, Louis Braille, Pascal Bruckner
- Henri Cartan , Henri Cartier-Bresson, Charlemagne, Jacques Chirac, Georges Clemenceau, Yves Congar, Le Corbusier, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
- Jacques Delors, Jacques Derrida, René Descartes, Alfred Dreyfus, Marguerite Durand
- Gustave Eiffel
- Laurent Fabius, Pierre de Fermat, Franco-Belgian comics
- Charles de Gaulle, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- Gisèle Halimi, Baron Haussmann
- Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Jaurès, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Lionel Jospin
- Roger Landes , Henri Désiré Landru, Jack Lang, Antoine Lavoisier, Jean-Marie Le Pen , Auguste and Louis Lumière
- Jules Hardouin Mansart, Jean-Paul Marat, Pierre Mendès France, François Mitterrand, Jean Monnet, Michel de Montaigne, Montesquieu, Montgolfier brothers
- Maurice Papon, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, Philippe Pétain
- César Ritz, Jean Rostand, Ségolène Royal
- Auguste Sabatier, Odette Sansom, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sœur Emmanuelle , Violette Szabo
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Germaine Tillion , Jacques Toubon
- Vauban, Dominique de Villepin, Vercingetorix
- Simone Weil
Places
- Alps
- Brittany,
- Camargue, Carcassonne, Cévennes, Cities of France, Corsica, Côte d'Azur
- Gardens of France, Garonne
- Islands of France
- Lakes of France, Lille, Loire, Lourdes , Lyon
- Marseille, Massif Central, Mediterranean, Mont Blanc
- Nantes, Nice, Normandy
- Paris, Pyrenees, Puy de Dôme
- Rhône, Rivers of France
- Seine
- Toulouse
- World Heritage Sites in France
Shopping, money
Sport
- Babyfoot, Fabien Barthez, Boules
- Philippe Candeloro, Eric Cantona, Pierre de Coubertin (Modern Olympic Games)
- Émile Delahaye
- French Open
- Thierry Henry
- Jean-Claude Killy
- Laure Manaudou, Le Mans
- Yannick Noah
- Parkour, Gwendal Peizerat, Pétanque, Michel Platini, Alain Prost
- Roland Garros
- Stade de France
- Tour de France, David Trezeguet
- Patrick Vieira
- Arsène Wenger
- Zinédine Zidane
Television, radio, film, theatre
- Anouk Aimée, Charles Aznavour
- Brigitte Bardot , Jean-Paul Belmondo, Luc Besson, Juliette Binoche, Charles Boyer,
- Canal Plus, Cannes Film Festival , Marcel Carné, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Laetitia Casta, Claude Chabrol, Cinema of France, Clotilde Courau, Comédie-Française
- Jean Delannoy , Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve , Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu , Jean Desailly
- Brigitte Fossey, Louis de Funès
- Jean Gabin, Léon Gaumont, Annie Girardot, Jean-Luc Godard, Sacha Guitry
- Isabelle Huppert
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Lelouch, Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
- Louis Malle, Marcel Marceau, Sophie Marceau, Jean Marais, Georges Méliès, Mistinguett, Yves Montand, Jeanne Moreau , Michèle Morgan
- Nouvelle Vague
- Marcel Pagnol, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor , Charles Pathé, Pathé Frères, Gérard Philippe
- Jean Reno, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais
- Simone Signoret,
- Jacques Tati, Audrey Tautou, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Truffaut
- Roger Vadim
Transport
- Air France, Airbus A400M
- Canal du Midi, Channel Tunnel , Charles de Gaulle Airport, Citroën
- Eurostar, Eurotunnel , Eurotunnel Shuttle
- Orly
- Peugeot
- Renault, Roissy
- SNCF, Mont Blanc Express
- Thalys, TGV Train grande vitesse
See also
- Cultural icon
- Culture of France
- List of cultural icons of England
- List of cultural icons of Germany
- List of cultural icons of Italy
- List of cultural icons of the Netherlands
- List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
- List of cultural icons of Russia
- List of cultural icons of Scotland
- List of cultural icons of Spain
- List of cultural icons of Wales