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What is the best French cultural export?

by YPB Team3 votes

Things the rest of the world borrowed from France and never gave back. Some are edible, one is a unit of measurement.

  1. French cuisine — ranked #11
    French cuisine
    The mother sauces, the brigade kitchen and the vocabulary every chef still uses.
    1000pts
  2. French New Wave cinema — ranked #22
    French New Wave cinema
    Godard, Truffaut and a way of shooting that film schools still teach.
    999pts
  3. The Eiffel Tower — ranked #33
    The Eiffel Tower
    A temporary exhibition structure that became the shorthand for a country.
    930pts
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  4. Impressionism — ranked #44
    Impressionism
    Named in Paris in 1874 from a Monet canvas, now the most popular art in the world's museums.
    734pts
  5. Haute couture — ranked #55
    Haute couture
    Chanel, Dior and a legally protected Paris fashion calendar.
    734pts
  6. The Louvre — ranked #66
    The Louvre
    The most visited museum on earth, and the model for the public art museum.
    734pts
  7. The metric system — ranked #77
    The metric system
    Devised in revolutionary Paris and now used by almost every country.
    636pts
  8. Champagne — ranked #88
    Champagne
    A protected region whose name became the word for celebration.
    636pts
  9. The Tour de France — ranked #99
    The Tour de France
    The world's largest annual sporting event, free at the roadside.
    636pts
  10. Baguette and boulangerie — ranked #1010
    Baguette and boulangerie
    Added to UNESCO's intangible heritage list in 2022.
    382pts
  11. Chanel No. 5 — ranked #1111
    Chanel No. 5
    The 1921 fragrance that made French perfume a global industry.
    382pts
  12. Gothic architecture — ranked #1212
    Gothic architecture
    Born at Saint-Denis in the 1140s and exported across Europe.
    382pts
  13. Cannes Film Festival — ranked #1313
    Cannes Film Festival
    The Palme d'Or and the calendar the film business runs on.
    382pts
  14. The Statue of Liberty — ranked #1414
    The Statue of Liberty
    A French gift, designed by Bartholdi with a frame by Eiffel.
    0pts
  15. French philosophy — ranked #1515
    French philosophy
    Descartes, Sartre and Beauvoir, still on reading lists everywhere.
    0pts

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Comments

Nobody sold Impressionism. American, Russian and Japanese painters simply copied it, which is a strange way to lead an export list: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways

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