This List of cultural icons of France is a
list of links to potential 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), Ouessant (sheep)
Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen, Picardy Spaniel,
Pyrenean Shepherd
Rouen Duck
== Art, craft ==
François Boucher, Bernard Buffet [2]
Paul Cézanne [3], Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,
Gustave Courbet
Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas [4], Eugène
Delacroix, Robert Delaunay, André Derain,
Marcel Duchamp
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Paul Gauguin [5], Giverny [6]
René Lalique [7], Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger
Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Mona Lisa,
Claude 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]
French architecture
Gîte
La Défense [14], Les Invalides, Louvre, Louvre
Pyramid
Mont-Saint-Michel, 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 [15]
== Dress, fashion ==
Pierre Balmain, Coco Chanel [16], [17], couturier,
Christian Dior [18], Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hubert
de Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler,
Sonia Rykiel, Yves Saint Laurent [19] [20],
Philippe Starck [21], Louis Vuitton, Lacoste
== Emblems and symbols ==
Flag of France
Fleur de Lys
Marianne
== Festivals ==
Bastille Day
Réveillon
== Food and drink ==
Appellation d'origine contrôlée
Bistro, Raymond Blanc [22], Paul Bocuse [23],
Bordeaux wine [24], Bourgogne wine
Camembert [25] [26], Champagne (wine), Crêpe,
Croissant, Cuisine of France [27]
Alain Ducasse [28]
Auguste Escoffier [29]
Galette [30], Guide Michelin
Haute cuisine
Jean-Christophe Novelli [31]
Albert Roux, Michel Roux [32]
Tapenade [33]
Cognac
== Government ==
Armée de Terre, Armée de l'Air, Gendarmerie
Nationale, Marine Nationale
Légion Étrangère
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
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 [34],
Prime Minister of France
Regions of France
Senate of France
== History and legend ==
Ancien Régime, Auld Alliance
Battle of Waterloo [35], Bourbon Restoration
Hugh Capet, Capetian, Cardinal Richelieu,
Charlemagne [36], Clovis, Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Empress Josephine,
Field of the Cloth of Gold, Fifth Republic,
French Revolution, First Empire, Fourth Republic
Charles de Gaulle [37]
House of Bourbon, House of Valois
Joan of Arc, July Monarchy
Louis XIV, Louis XVI
Napoléon Bonaparte
Second Empire
Third Republic, Treaty of Verdun
== Holidays ==
Holidays in France
== Industry ==
Air France, Airbus, Airbus A400M
André Citroën
EDF, Electricité de France [38]
Gaz de France [39]
Armand Peugeot [40]
Marcel Renault
France Télécom
== Language ==
Académie française [41] [42], Alsatian,
Basque, Breton, Català, Corsu, Francophonie
[43], French, International Francophone Organisation,
Langue d'Oc, Occitan, Provençal, Romance,
Toubon Law
== Literature, newspapers, comics ==
Alain Robbe-Grillet [44], Alain-Fournier,
Jean Anouilh, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis
Aragon, Astérix [45]Honoré de Balzac, Charles
Baudelaire [46], Pierre Beaumarchais, Simone
de Beauvoir [47] [48], 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 [49], 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 [50], Eugène
Ionesco
Jean de La Fontaine, Alphonse de Lamartine,
Libération [51],
Stéphane Mallarmé, André Malraux, Guy de
Maupassant, François Mauriac, Molière, [52],
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 [53], Jean-Paul Sartre, The
Song of Roland, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Stendhal
Tristan and Iseult
Albert Uderzo [54]
Paul Valéry, Paul Verlaine, Jules Verne,
Boris Vian, François Villon, Voltaire [55]
Émile Zola [56]
== Music ==
Music of France
Richard Anthony, Charles Aznavour
Daniel Balavoine, Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud,
Michel Berger,Berlioz [57], Georges Bizet,
Pierre Boulez, Lucienne Boyer, Georges Brassens,
Jacques Brel [58]
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Maurice Chevalier,
François Couperin
Dalida, Claude Debussy [59], Sacha Distel
[60], Paul Dukas, Jacques Dutronc
Gabriel Fauré, Claude François, César Franck
Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, Stéphane Grappelli
[61], Jean-Jacques Goldman ,Juliette Gréco
Johnny Hallyday, Françoise Hardy
Jean Michel Jarre [62], Maurice Jarre [63]
Michel Legrand, Jean-Baptiste Lully
Mireille Mathieu, Olivier Messiaen, Darius
Milhaud, Mistinguett, Yves Montand
Yannick Noah
Jacques Offenbach
Édith Piaf [64], Francis Poulenc
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel [65],
Tino Rossi, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Jean Sablon, Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Salvador
[66], Erik Satie, Alan Stivell
Charles Trenet [67], Troubadour, Trouvère
Sylvie Vartan
Yé-yé
Hector Zazou [68]
== 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 [69], 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 [70], Henri Désiré Landru,
Jack Lang, Antoine Lavoisier, Jean-Marie Le
Pen [71], 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 [72], Violette Szabo
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin, Germaine Tillion [73], 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
Lakes of France, Lille, Loire, Lourdes [74],
Lyon
Marseille, Massif Central, Mediterranean,
Mont Blanc [75]
Nantes, Nice, Normandy
Paris, Pyrenees, Puy de Dôme
Reims, Rhône, Rivers of France
Seine [76]
Toulouse
World Heritage Sites in France
== Shopping, money ==
Crédit Agricole [77], Galeries Lafayette
== Sport ==
Fabien Barthez, Boules
Philippe Candeloro, Eric Cantona, Pierre de
Coubertin
Émile Delahaye
French Open
Grand Prix
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 [78]
Zinédine Zidane
== Television, radio, film, theatre ==
Anouk Aimée, Charles Aznavour
Brigitte Bardot [79], Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Luc Besson, Juliette Binoche, Charles Boyer,
Canal Plus, Cannes Film Festival [80], Marcel
Carné, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Laetitia Casta,
Claude Chabrol, Cinema of France, Clotilde
Courau, Comédie-Française [81]
Jean Delannoy [82], Alain Delon, Catherine
Deneuve [83], Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume
Depardieu [84], Jean Desailly [85]
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 [86], Michèle
Morgan
Nouvelle Vague
Marcel Pagnol, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor [87],
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 [88], Charles
de Gaulle Airport, Citroën
Eurostar, Getlink [89], Eurotunnel Shuttle
Orly
Peugeot
Renault, Roissy
SNCF, Mont Blanc Express [90]
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
