Le Plus Grand Français de tous les temps

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Le Plus Grand Français ( the greatest Frenchman of all time was) a television broadcast radio station France 2 , on the series 100 Greatest Britons of the BBC based and was the beginning of 2005. The show asked the French audience who they think was the greatest Frenchman or woman. It wasmoderatedby Michel Drucker and Thierry Ardisson . The last episode was broadcast from the French Senate .

The winner was former president and leader of the Forces françaises libres , Charles de Gaulle.

The show has been criticized by some historians for only presenting on personalities from recent French history. Key figures in French history who helped found the French nation, such as Kings Philip II August , Louis the Saint and Louis XIV , were largely ignored.

Greatest Frenchman of all time

  1. Charles de Gaulle , General and Politician, President (1959–1969)
  2. Louis Pasteur , scientist and pioneer in the field of microbiology
  3. Abbé Pierre , priest and founder of the Emmaus charity
  4. Marie Curie , physicist and chemist
  5. Coluche , humorist, film actor, comedian and author
  6. Victor Hugo , author
  7. Bourvil , actor
  8. Molière , playwright
  9. Jacques-Yves Cousteau , marine researcher
  10. Édith Piaf , singer
  11. Marcel Pagnol , author and filmmaker
  12. Georges Brassens , musician
  13. Fernandel , actor
  14. Jean de La Fontaine , poet and fabulous poet
  15. Jules Verne , science fiction writer
  16. Napoléon Bonaparte , general, statesman and emperor
  17. Louis de Funès , actor
  18. Jean Gabin , actor
  19. Daniel Balavoine , musician
  20. Serge Gainsbourg , musician
  21. Zinédine Zidane , football player
  22. Charlemagne , King of the Frankish Empire and Roman Emperor
  23. Lino Ventura , actor
  24. François Mitterrand , President (1981–1995)
  25. Gustave Eiffel , architect
  26. Émile Zola , author
  27. Emmanuelle Cinquin NDS , nun and "mother of the garbage people of Cairo"
  28. Jean Moulin , head of the French Resistance during World War II
  29. Charles Aznavour , singer
  30. Yves Montand , actor and singer
  31. Joan of Arc , national heroine and saint
  32. Général Leclerc , general in World War II
  33. Voltaire , author of the Enlightenment
  34. Johnny Hallyday , singer
  35. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , aviator and author
  36. Claude François , singer
  37. Christian Cabrol , cardiologist and surgeon
  38. Jean-Paul Belmondo , actor
  39. Jules Ferry , politician
  40. Louis Lumière , inventor of the cinema
  41. Michel Platini , football player
  42. Jacques Chirac , President (1995-2007)
  43. Charles Trenet , singer
  44. Georges Pompidou , President (1969–1974)
  45. Michel Sardou , singer
  46. Simone Signoret , actress
  47. Haroun Tazieff , volcanologist
  48. Jacques Prévert , poet
  49. Eric Tabarly , ocean sailor
  50. Louis XIV , King
  51. David Douillet , judoka
  52. Henri Salvador , singer
  53. Jean-Jacques Goldman , musician
  54. Jean Jaurès , politician
  55. Jean Marais , actor
  56. Yannick Noah , tennis player
  57. Albert Camus , author
  58. Dalida , singer
  59. Léon Lemon , journalist
  60. Nicolas Hulot , journalist
  61. Simone Veil , politician
  62. Alain Delon , actor
  63. Patrick Poivre d'Arvor , journalist
  64. Aimé Jacquet , football player
  65. Francis Cabrel , singer
  66. Brigitte Bardot , actress
  67. Guy de Maupassant , author
  68. Alexandre Dumas the Elder , Author
  69. Honoré de Balzac , author
  70. Paul Verlaine , poet
  71. Jean-Jacques Rousseau , political writer
  72. Maximilian de Robespierre , personality of the French Revolution
  73. Renaud , singer
  74. Bernard Kouchner , politician and humanitarian
  75. Claude Monet , artist
  76. Michel Serrault , actor
  77. Pierre-Auguste Renoir , artist
  78. Michel Drucker , journalist
  79. Raimu , actor
  80. Vercingetorix , prince of the Gallic-Celtic Arverni, revered as a national hero in the 19th century
  81. Raymond Poulidor , racing cyclist
  82. Charles Baudelaire , poet
  83. Pierre Corneille , author
  84. Arthur Rimbaud , poet
  85. Georges Clemenceau , journalist and politician
  86. Gilbert Bécaud , singer
  87. José Bové , trade unionist and environmental activist
  88. Jean Ferrat , singer
  89. Lionel Jospin , politician
  90. Jean Cocteau , playwright, poet and filmmaker
  91. Luc Besson , filmmaker
  92. Tino Rossi , singer
  93. Pierre de Coubertin , educator and founder of the modern Olympic Games
  94. Jean Renoir , actor and director
  95. Gérard Philipe , actor
  96. Jean-Paul Sartre , author
  97. Catherine Deneuve , actress
  98. Serge Reggiani , singer
  99. Gérard Depardieu , actor
  100. Françoise Dolto , psychoanalyst