From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of cultural icons of France
List of cultural icons of France
Animals
• Abondance (cattle), Alsace hamster [1], 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), Mont Saint Michel
Ouessant (sheep)
• Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen, Picardy Spaniel,
• Notre-Dame d’Amiens, Notre-Dame de Chartres,
Poodle, Pyrenean Shepherd
Notre Dame de Paris, Notre-Dame de Reims
• Rouen duck
• Palace of Versailles, Palais des Papes, Pont de
Normandie
Art, craft • Saint Denis Basilica, Sainte-Chapelle
• Viaduc de Millau [15]
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• François Boucher, Bernard Buffet [2]
• Paul Cézanne [3], Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Dress, fashion
Gustave Courbet
• Pierre Balmain, Coco Chanel [16], [17], couturier,
• Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas [4], Eugène
Christian Dior [18], Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hubert de
Delacroix, Robert Delaunay, André Derain, Marcel
Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler, Sonia
Duchamp
Rykiel, Yves Saint Laurent [19] [20], Philippe Starck
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard
[21], Louis Vuitton, Lacoste
• Paul Gauguin [5], Giverny [6]
• René Lalique [7], Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger
• Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Mona Lisa, Claude Emblems and symbols
Monet
• Camille Pissarro, Nicolas Poussin
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin [8]
• Niki de Saint Phalle [9], Georges Seurat
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges de la Tour
• Maurice Utrillo
• Antoine Watteau [10]
Buildings and structures
• Arc de Triomphe
• Centre Pompidou [11], Château de Chambord,
Château Gaillard, Chinon
• Eiffel Tower [12] [13] Tricolore
• French architecture
• Gîte • Joan of Arc
• La Défense [14], Les Invalides, Louvre, Louvre • Marianne
Pyramid • Tricolore
• Mont-Saint-Michel, Musée d’Orsay
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Festivals •
•
Charles de Gaulle [41]
House of Bourbon, House of Valois
• Bastille Day • July Monarchy
• Reveillon • Louis XIV, Louis XVI
• Napoléon Bonaparte
Food and drink •
•
Restauration
Second Empire
• Appellation d’origine contrôlée • Third Republic, Treaty of Verdun
• Bistro, Raymond Blanc [22], Paul Bocuse [23], • Vichy France [42] [43]
Bordeaux wine [24], Bourgogne wine
• Camembert [25] [26], Champagne (wine), Crêpe,
Croissant, Cuisine of France [27] Holidays
• Alain Ducasse [28] • Holidays in France
• Auguste Escoffier [29]
• Galette [30], Guide Michelin
• Haute cuisine
Industry, science
• Jean-Christophe Novelli [31] • Air France, Airbus, Airbus A400M
• Albert Roux, Michel Roux [32] • André Citroën
• Tapenade [33] • EDF, Electricité de France [44]
• Cognac • Gaz de France [45]
• André Peugeot [46]
Government •
•
Marcel Renault
France Télécom
• Armée de Terre, Armée de l’Air, Gendarmerie
Nationale, Marine Nationale
• Communes of France, Constitution of France,
Language
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 [34]
• 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 [35], Prime Minister Francophonie
of France
• Rally for the Republic Rassemblement pour la • Académie française [47] [48], Alsatian, Basque,
République, RPR, Regions of France Breton, Català, Corsu, Francophonie [49], French,
• Secularism [36], Senate of France International Francophone Organisation, Langue
• Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) d’Oc, Occitan, Provençal, Romance, Toubon Law
History and legend Literature, newspapers, comics
• Algerian War, Ancien Régime • Alain Robbe-Grillet [50], Alain-Fournier, Jean
• Battle of Waterloo [37] Anouilh, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon,
• Hugh Capet, Capetian, Cardinal Richelieu, Astérix [51]
Charlemagne [38], Clovis, Jean-Baptiste Colbert • Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire [52], Pierre
• Dreyfuss affair Beaumarchais, Simone de Beauvoir [53] [54], Cyrano
• Empress Josephine, Entente Cordiale [39] de Bergerac, Georges Bernanos, André Breton
• Field of the Cloth of Gold, Fifth Republic, French • Albert Camus, Le Canard Enchaîné, Louis-Ferdinand
Revolution, First Empire, Fourth Republic, Franco- Céline, Chansons de geste, Chrétien de Troyes, Pierre
Prussian War, French Indochina [40]
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Choderlos de Laclos, Paul Claudel, Jean-Marie Le • Charles Trenet [74], Troubadour, Trouvère
Clézio [55], Jean Cocteau, Colette, Pierre Corneille • Sylvie Vartan
• René Descartes, Denis Diderot, Alexandre Dumas, • Hector Zazou [75]
père, Alexandre Dumas, fils, Marguerite Duras
•
•
Les Échos, Paul Éluard, L’Express,
Georges Feydeau, Le Figaro, Gustave Flaubert, Jean de
People
la Fontaine, Anatole France •
• Romain Gary, Théophile Gautier, Jean Genet, André • Abbé Pierre, Pierre Abélard, Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Gide, Jean Giono, Jean Giraudoux, René Goscinny • Raymond Barre, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson,
• Jean-Edern Hallier, Victor Hugo [56], Eugène Ionesco Bernard of Clairvaux, Louis Blériot, Léon Blum, Louis
• Jean de La Fontaine, Alphonse de Lamartine, Braille, Pascal Bruckner
Libération [57], • Henri Cartan [76], Henri Cartier-Bresson,
• Stéphane Mallarmé, André Malraux, Guy de Charlemagne, Jacques Chirac, Georges Clemenceau,
Maupassant, François Mauriac, Molière, [58], Le Yves Congar, Le Corbusier, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
Monde • Jacques Delors, Jacques Derrida, René Descartes,
• The Man in the Iron Mask, Marcel Pagnol, Blaise Pascal, Alfred Dreyfus, Marguerite Durand
Charles Perrault, Jacques Prévert, Marcel Proust • Gustave Eiffel
• Le Nouvel Observateur • Laurent Fabius, Pierre de Fermat, Franco-Belgian
• Le Petit Prince, Prix Goncourt comics
• François Rabelais, Jean Racine, Arthur Rimbaud, • Charles de Gaulle, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
Roman de la Rose, Roman de Renart, Reynard, • Gisèle Halimi, Baron Haussmann
Edmond Rostand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Jaurès, Frédéric Joliot-Curie,
• Françoise Sagan [59], Jean-Paul Sartre, Song of Lionel Jospin
Roland, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Stendhal • Roger Landes [77], Henri Désiré Landru, Jack Lang,
• Tristan and Iseult Antoine Lavoisier, Jean-Marie Le Pen [78], Auguste
• Albert Uderzo [60] and Louis Lumière
• Paul Valéry, Paul Verlaine, Jules Verne, Boris Vian, • Jules Hardouin Mansart, Jean Paul Marat, Pierre
François Villon, Voltaire [61] Mendès-France, François Mitterrand, Jean Monnet,
• Emile Zola [62] Michel de Montaigne, Montesquieu, Montgolfier
brothers
• Maurice Papon, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, Henri
Music Philippe Pétain
• • César Ritz, Jean Rostand, Ségolène Royal
• Richard Anthony, Charles Aznavour • Auguste Sabatier, Odette Sansom, Nicolas Sarkozy,
• Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud, Hector Berlioz [63], Georges Sœur Emmanuelle [79], Violette Szabo
Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Lucienne Boyer, Georges • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Pierre Teilhard de
Brassens, Jacques Brel [64] Chardin, Germaine Tillion [80], Jacques Toubon
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Maurice Chevalier, • Vauban, Dominique de Villepin
François Couperin • Simone Weil
• Dalida, Claude Debussy [65], Sacha Distel [66], Paul
Dukas, Jacques Dutronc
• Gabriel Fauré, Claude François, César Franck
Places
• Serge Gainsbourg [67], Stéphane Grappelli [68], • Alps
Juliette Gréco • Brittany,
• Johnny Halliday, Françoise Hardy • Camargue, Carcassonne, Cevennes, Cities of France,
• Jean Michel Jarre [69], Maurice Jarre [70] Corsica, Côte d’Azur
• Michel Legrand, Jean-Baptiste Lully • Gardens of France, Garonne
• Mireille Mathieu, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, • Islands of France
Mistinguett, Yves Montand • Lakes of France, Lille, Loire, Lourdes [81], Lyon
• Yannick Noah • Marseille, Massif Central, Mediterranean, Mont Blanc
• Jacques Offenbach [82]
• Édith Piaf [71], Francis Poulenc • Nantes, Nice, Normandy
• Jean Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel [72], Tino Rossi, • Paris, Pyrenees, Puy de Dôme
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle • Rhône, Rivers of France
• Jean Sablon, Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Salvador • Seine [83]
[73], Erik Satie, Alan Stivell • Toulouse
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• World Heritage Sites in France • Isabelle Huppert
• Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Lelouch, Auguste Lumière,
Shopping, money Louis Lumière
• Louis Malle, Marcel Marceau, Sophie Marceau, Jean
• Crédit Agricole [84], Galeries Lafayette Marais, Georges Méliès, Mistinguett, Yves Montand,
Jeanne Moreau [93], Michèle Morgan
Sport • Nouvelle Vague
• Marcel Pagnol, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor [94], Charles
• Babyfoot, Fabien Barthez, Boules Pathé, Pathé Frères, Gérard Philippe
• Philippe Candeloro, Eric Cantona, Pierre de • Jean Reno, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais
Coubertin (Modern Olympic Games) • Simone Signoret,
• Émile Delahaye • Jacques Tati, Audrey Tautou, Jean-Louis Trintignant,
• French Open François Truffaut
• Thierry Henry • Roger Vadim
• Jean-Claude Killy
• Laure Manaudou, Le Mans
• Yannick Noah Transport
• Parkour, Gwendal Peizerat, Pétanque, Michel Platini, • Air France, Airbus A400M
Alain Prost • Canal du Midi, Channel Tunnel [95], Charles de
• Roland Garros Gaulle International Airport, Citroën
• Stade de France • Eurostar, Eurotunnel [96], Eurotunnel Shuttle
• Tour de France, David Trezeguet • Orly
• Patrick Vieira • Peugeot
• Arsène Wenger [85] • Renault, Roissy
• Zinédine Zidane • SNCF, Mont Blanc Express [97]
• Thalys, TGV Train grande vitesse
Television, radio, film, theatre
• Anouk Aimée, Charles Aznavour See also
• Brigitte Bardot [86], Jean-Paul Belmondo, Luc Besson, • Cultural icon
Juliette Binoche, Charles Boyer, • Culture of France
• Canal Plus, Cannes Film Festival [87], Marcel Carné, • List of cultural icons of England
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• Jean Delannoy [89], Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve • List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
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