List of cultural icons of France

This List of cultural icons of France is a list of links to cultural icons of France.

Animals[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Arc de Triomphe
Centre Pompidou [11], Château de Chambord, Château de Fontainebleau, Château de Chenonceau
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[edit]

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

Festivals[edit]

Bastille Day
Réveillon

Food and drink[edit]

Appellation d'origine contrôlée
Bistro, Paul Bocuse [22], Bordeaux wine [23], Bourgogne wine
Camembert [24] [25], Champagne (wine), Crêpe, Croissant, Baguette, Cuisine of France [26]
Alain Ducasse [27]
Auguste Escoffier [28]
Galette [29], Guide Michelin
Haute cuisine
Tapenade [30]
Cognac

Government[edit]

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 [31], Prime Minister of France
Regions of France
Senate of France

History and legend[edit]

Ancien Régime
Battle of Bouvines, Battle of Verdun
Clovis, Hugh Capet, Cardinal Richelieu, Cardinal Mazarin, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Maximilien Robespierre
Marie Antoinette, Empress Josephine
Field of the Cloth of Gold, Fifth Republic, French Revolution, First Empire, Fourth Republic
Charles de Gaulle [32]
Capetian, House of Bourbon, House of Valois
July Monarchy
Louis XIV, Louis XVI
Napoléon Bonaparte, Viscount of Turenne
Second Empire
Third Republic, Treaty of Verdun

Holidays[edit]

Holidays in France

Industry[edit]

Air France, Airbus, Airbus A400M
André Citroën
EDF, Electricité de France [33]
Gaz de France [34]
Armand Peugeot [35]
Marcel Renault
France Télécom

Language[edit]

Académie française [36] [37], Alsatian, Basque, Breton, Català, Corsu, Francophonie [38], French, International Francophone Organisation, Langue d'Oc, Occitan, Provençal, Toubon Law

Literature, newspapers, comics[edit]

Alain Robbe-Grillet [39], Alain-Fournier, Jean Anouilh, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Astérix [40]Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire [41], Pierre Beaumarchais, Simone de Beauvoir [42] [43], Cyrano de Bergerac, Georges Bernanos, Charles Péguy, 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 [44], 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
Victor Hugo [45], Eugène Ionesco
Jean de La Fontaine, Alphonse de Lamartine, Libération [46],
Stéphane Mallarmé, André Malraux, Guy de Maupassant, François Mauriac, Molière, [47], Le Monde
Man in the Iron Mask, Marcel Pagnol, Blaise Pascal, Charles Perrault, les Contes de ma mère l'Oye, Comtesse de Ségur, 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 [48], Jean-Paul Sartre, The Song of Roland, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stendhal
Tristan and Iseult
Albert Uderzo [49]
Paul Valéry, Paul Verlaine, Jules Verne, Boris Vian, François Villon, Voltaire [50]
Émile Zola [51]

Music[edit]

Music of France
Charles Aznavour
Daniel Balavoine, Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud, Michel Berger, Berlioz [52], Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Pierre Boulez
Maurice Chevalier, François Couperin
Daft Punk
Dalida, Claude Debussy [53], Sacha Distel [54], Jacques Dutronc
Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel [55], Claude François
Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli [56], Jean-Jacques Goldman, Juliette Gréco
Josephine Baker
Johnny Hallyday, Françoise Hardy
Jean Michel Jarre [57], Maurice Jarre [58]
Michel Legrand, Jean-Baptiste Lully
Mireille Mathieu, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Mistinguett, Yves Montand
Jacques Offenbach
Édith Piaf [59], Francis Poulenc
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel [60], Tino Rossi, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Salvador [61], Erik Satie
Charles Trenet [62], Troubadour, Trouvère
Sylvie Vartan
Yé-yé

People[edit]

List of French people
Abbé Pierre, Commandant Cousteau, Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Raymond Barre, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson, Bernard of Clairvaux, Louis Blériot, Léon Blum, Louis Braille, Régis Debray
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Charlemagne, Jacques Chirac, Georges Clemenceau, Le Corbusier, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
Jacques Delors, Jacques Derrida, René Descartes, Alfred Dreyfus, Hélène Boucher
Gustave Eiffel
Charles de Gaulle
Baron Haussmann
Jean Jaurès, Jean Moulin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Henri Désiré Landru, Jack Lang, Antoine Lavoisier, Jean-Marie Le Pen [63], Auguste and Louis Lumière
Marquis de Lafayette, Jean-Paul Marat, Pierre Mendès France, François Mitterrand, Jean Monnet, Michel de Montaigne, Montesquieu, Montgolfier brothers
Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, Philippe Pétain
César Ritz, Jean Rostand, Ségolène Royal
Nicolas Sarkozy, Sœur Emmanuelle [64]
Jules Hardouin Mansart, Chevalier d'Éon, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Germaine Tillion [65]
Vauban, Vercingetorix, Simone Veil

Places[edit]

Alps
Brittany,
Camargue, Carcassonne, Cévennes, Cities of France, Corsica, Côte d'Azur
Gardens of France, Garonne
Lakes of France, Lille, Loire, Lourdes [66], Lyon
Marseille, Massif Central, Mont Blanc [67]
Nantes, Nice, Normandy
Paris, Pyrenees, Puy de Dôme
Reims, Rhône, Rivers of France
Seine [68]
Toulouse
World Heritage Sites in France

Religion[edit]

Notre-Dame de Paris, Grand Mosque of Paris, Grande synagogue de Lyon
Joan of Arc, Saint Genevieve
Avignon Papacy

Shopping, money[edit]

Bank of France, Galeries Lafayette

Sport[edit]

Fabien Barthez, Serge Blanco, Boules
Philippe Candeloro, Eric Cantona, Pierre de Coubertin
Émile Delahaye, Christophe Dominici
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 [69]
Zinedine Zidane

Television, radio, film, theatre[edit]

Anouk Aimée, Charles Aznavour
Brigitte Bardot [70], Jean-Paul Belmondo, Luc Besson, Juliette Binoche, Charles Boyer,
Canal Plus, Cannes Film Festival [71], Marcel Carné, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Laetitia Casta, Claude Chabrol, Cinema of France, Clotilde Courau, Comédie-Française [72]
Jean Delannoy [73], Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve [74], Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu [75], Jean Desailly [76], Jean Dujardin
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 [77], Michèle Morgan
Nouvelle Vague
Marcel Pagnol, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor [78], 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[edit]

Air France, Airbus A400M
Canal du Midi, Channel Tunnel [79], Charles de Gaulle Airport, Citroën
Eurostar, Getlink [80], Eurotunnel Shuttle
Orly
Peugeot
Renault, Roissy
SNCF, Mont Blanc Express [81]
Concorde
Thalys, The TGV

References[edit]

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