This List of cultural icons of France is a list of links to 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 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
- 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
Festivals
Food and drink
- 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
- 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
- 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
Industry
- Air France, Airbus, Airbus A400M
- André Citroën
- EDF, Electricité de France [33]
- Gaz de France [34]
- Armand Peugeot [35]
- Marcel Renault
- France Télécom
Language
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Notre-Dame de Paris, Grand Mosque of Paris, Grande synagogue de Lyon
- Joan of Arc, Saint Genevieve
- Avignon Papacy
Shopping, money
Sport
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 Japan
- 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