Le Plus Grand Français
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Le Plus Grand Français de tous les temps (The Greatest Frenchman of all Time) was a France 2 show of early 2005, based on an original series of Great Britons on the BBC. The show asked the French viewers who they thought was the Greatest Frenchman or Frenchwoman. It was presented by Michel Drucker and Thierry Ardisson, and the final episode was broadcast at the French Senate.
The winner was the former president and leader on the Free French movement, Charles de Gaulle.
The show was criticized by some historians in that it focussed only on personalities of recent French history. Key figures of French history who contributed to the founding of the French nation, such as kings Philip Augustus, Saint Louis, and Louis XIV, or French heroine Joan of Arc, were largely ignored.
The Greatest Frenchman of All Time
- Charles de Gaulle
- Louis Pasteur
- Abbé Pierre
- Marie Curie
- Coluche
- Victor Hugo
- Bourvil
- Molière
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Édith Piaf
- Marcel Pagnol
- Georges Brassens
- Fernandel
- Jean de la Fontaine
- Jules Verne
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Louis De Funes
- Jean Gabin
- Daniel Balavoine
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Zinedine Zidane
- Charlemagne
- Lino Ventura
- François Mitterrand
- Gustave Eiffel
- Émile Zola
- Sœur Emmanuelle
- Jean Moulin
- Charles Aznavour
- Yves Montand
- Jeanne d’Arc
- Général Leclerc
- Voltaire
- Johnny Hallyday
- Antoine de St-Exupéry
- Claude Francois
- Christian Cabrol
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Jules Ferry
- Louis Lumière
- Michel Platini
- Jacques Chirac
- Charles Trenet
- Georges Pompidou
- Michel Sardou
- Simone Signoret
- Haroun Tazieff
- Jacques Prévert
- Éric Tabarly
- Louis XIV
- David Douillet
- Henri Salvador
- Jean-Jacques Goldman
- Jean Jaures
- Jean Marais
- Yannick Noah
- Albert Camus
- Dalida
- Léon Zitrone
- Nicolas Hulot
- Simone Veil
- Alain Delon
- Patrick Poivre d’Arvor
- Aimé Jacquet
- Francis Cabrel
- Brigitte Bardot
- Guy De Maupassant
- Alexandre Dumas
- Honoré de Balzac
- Paul Verlaine
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Robespierre
- Renaud
- Bernard Kouchner
- Claude Monet
- Michel Serrault
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Michel Drucker
- Raimu
- Vercingetorix
- Raymond Poulidor
- Charles Baudelaire
- Pierre Corneille
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Georges Clemenceau
- Gilbert Bécaud
- José Bové
- Jean Ferrat
- Lionel Jospin
- Jean Cocteau
- Luc Besson
- Tino Rossi
- Pierre de Coubertin
- Jean Renoir
- Gérard Philipe
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Catherine Deneuve
- Serge Reggiani
- Gérard Depardieu
- Françoise Dolto
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