# What is the most iconic French brand of all time?

> Couture houses share this list with tyres, ballpoint pens and cast-iron pots. Each one is France to somebody.

*By YPB Team · Published September 14, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-most-iconic-french-brand-of-all-time*

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## Current results (1 vote)

1. **Bic** — score 1000/1000
   The Cristal pen, the lighter and the razor — French design at the lowest possible price.
2. **Louis Vuitton** — score 692/1000
   A trunkmaker from 1854 and now the world's most valuable luxury brand.
3. **Chanel** — score 664/1000
   A rue Cambon milliner's shop that became the most protected private name in French luxury.
4. **Peugeot** — score 445/1000
   A lion badge that started on saw blades and pepper mills before it reached cars.
5. **Veuve Clicquot** — score 284/1000
   The widow who invented riddling, and the yellow label that followed.
6. **Decathlon** — score 284/1000
   The sports hypermarket that made technical kit cheap enough to try a sport on a whim.
7. **Citroën** — score 284/1000
   The 2CV and the DS — engineering eccentricity as a national trait.
8. **Air France** — score 284/1000
   The winged seahorse, Concorde, and the flag carrier's blue-white-red tail.
9. **Lacoste** — score 284/1000
   René Lacoste's crocodile put a tennis shirt into every wardrobe on the continent.
10. **Le Creuset** — score 284/1000
   Enamelled cast iron from Fresnoy-le-Grand, inherited more often than it is replaced.
11. **Dior** — score 214/1000
   30 Avenue Montaigne, the New Look, and the couture house LVMH built a division around.
12. **Cartier** — score 214/1000
   The Tank, the Love bracelet, and a jeweller kings actually called the jeweller of kings.
13. **Guerlain** — score 171/1000
   Perfumer to the Second Empire and still making Shalimar two centuries later.
14. **L'Oréal** — score 133/1000
   The biggest cosmetics company in the world, built on a hair dye from 1909.
15. **Moët & Chandon** — score 133/1000
   The champagne house that made a regional wine into the global signal for celebration.
16. **Hermès** — score 133/1000
   Saddlery that never industrialised: one artisan, one Birkin, several years of waiting.
17. **Renault** — score 133/1000
   The Clio, the R5 and a century of putting France on four affordable wheels.
18. **Perrier** — score 133/1000
   A green teardrop bottle that convinced the world to pay for bubbles in water.
19. **Michelin** — score 0/1000
   Tyres, a white rubber mascot, and the restaurant guide that decides careers.
20. **Evian** — score 0/1000
   Alpine water, pink label, and decades of advertising with dancing babies.

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