List of cultural icons of France

Last updated December 08, 2022

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

Emblems and symbols

Festivals

Holidays

Holidays in France

Industry

Language

Académie française , Alsatian, Basque, Breton, Català, Corsu, Francophonie , French, International Francophone Organisation, Langue d'Oc, Occitan, Provençal, 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, 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 , 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 , 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, 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 , 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

People

Religion

Shopping, money

Bank of France, Galeries Lafayette

Television, radio, film, theatre

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List of cultural icons of France

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