Top 10 Iconic People From France
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Marie Curie was not from France! She was born to Polish parents and only went to France from Poland at the age of 23! You didn't even mention she was born in Poland, what a disgrace!
And her maiden name was Skłodowska.
They didn't mentioned her french husband Pierre either
She as still French
You could argue she was partly French, but why didn't they even mention she spent her first 23 years in a different country?
History.
Marie Curie was Polish!
also french
Maria Sklodowska-Curie.
Sure. Aloys Schickelgruber and Yossif Dzhugashvili.
Great, so maybe the Pols would stop blaming the Germans and Russians for all their woes then?
They have every right to do so since the first partition of Poland.
Napoleon Bonaparte will always be #1!
Not for long
Why so many dislikes???
WatchMojo is not only about Games and Movies, kids.
Also, there are other countries than USA.
We're all that matter though
+tropicAces True
and were the most fucked up
+Master dogZgamer Not true.
Kids don't like too learn. I like watchmojo and find some history very interesting. We should all learn from other countries and what they did that's how a country can or should strive. Learn from mistakes
Wasn't Marie Curie Polish?
She was.
She was born in Poland but she also had the French nationality
valentin ianna Oh, Like Christopher Columbus? Born in Italy but living in Spain
+Joe M Actually, she had both Polish And French citizenship. She was born in Poland and spent there her early years and then moved to France.
Citizenship not nationality, thats BIG difference, also she psend 1st 24 years in Poland, not just "early years".
Maria Curie was polish
also french
Charles Gabriel She acquired french citizenship by marriage, but for her whole life she had a very proud sense of Polish identity.
Denying her polish nationality seems pretty inaccurate.
And also unreasonable.
Since France have already so many great men and women that build world history, I really don't see the need to take into account also Polish people that simply happened to fall in love with a french men.
YEah you can fuck of and all !
***** Beginning training doesn't count, it's where you finish your training that matters. Like people who start at a community college but finish with a university degree don't mention their community college in their credentials. Oh and as for keeping her maiden name? Guess what? That is quintessentially French. In a backward, conservative catholic country like Poland, Curie would have never even had the option of keeping her maiden name.
Many Polish women have two surnames you idiot!
Marie Curie was born in POLAND NOT FRANCE !
BORN! But she did have the French nationality.
still had the french nationality.
Yup but she had the French nationality so she was French
And Napoleon was Italian.
+Charles Gabriel nationality is not the same thing as citizenship, why you all mistake these two things?
In Poland we have a joke about revisionist historians that even Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) was a woman. In that context Kopernik was probably a french woman certainly not polish woman as Curie-Skłodowska.
I bet 95% dont know why this is uploaded today
Il parle des non-français
You win your bet.
I know why.
+Klinta Kupce plus the attack in Nice from today is also a reason
Because of the French national holiday.... And sadly also because of the horrifying attack in Nice
Great video!
Bonnes fêtes les Frenchy
Thx ^^
+Top10 Advertisement Alert!!
Thx, even tho it just turned into a nightmare... :(
+FrenchGeek wait whats ?
+je suis un chat qui s`appelle yoan
À Nice, un mec a écrasé la foule qui regardait les feux d'artifices, avec un camion. Au moins 80 morts.
Maria Skłodowska, (Curie name of husband) Born in Warsaw, in Polish Kingdom. Father Władysław Sikorski, mother Bogusława Boguska - 100 % polish blood. Her family was a little aristocracy. She was a POLE with French passport.
You really don't understand what it means to be French. Being French is not a race, Marie Currie was French by choice.
@@TheInstallations then what is it? Nationality and race are more often than not intertwined.
@@danielarejas7118 France has always been an agglomeration of different people, from South of Europe, like the Visigoths which founded Spain and South of France, the Franks, the Gaul, the Romans, and later other people from recent Europe, Indochina to Africa.
The French Republic created a Nation where being French was not incarnated by Race or Religion but by Ideological and political choice: Egalite, Fraternité, Liberté. It's called Universalism, Napoleon and the French Revolution changed Europe from a feudal continent to different democratic Nations. During the time of Marie Curie (end of 19th, begining of 20th Century), it meant something, as France represented freedom for Science and allowed women to pursue a scientific career. It was probably the most liberal country in the world and attracted a lot of progressive mind (Tchaikovsky, Picasso, Van Gogh, le Corbusier, Dali...) at the beginning of the 20th Century, before it killed its vital strength in the 1st and 2nd World Wars. These 2 wars were catastrophic for France's demography and destroyed most of the combative strength of its population. France is nowadays just a shadow of its former glory.
@@danielarejas7118 not in the case of the French Republic.
@@TheInstallations OK, Marie Curie was still a Polish woman. The only thing you've made clear is that anyone can call themselves French, which I don't see as strictly positive.
Is it complicated for Americans/English to pronounce french words? Its always funny to ear
Just like it's hilarious to hear french people trying to pronounce English.
+Darkest Moon Vut english try to pronounce with a "chic french accent"
+BlackNassK its funny too cause these guys are from Quebec i think
+Darkest Moon im swiss and french and can speak good english without accent
+SeriousGoret I was thinking of that, we say William Shakesspear and not Guillaume Secouelance
How is Louis XIV not on the list but Napoleon is?! Louis XIV is the one most famous and iconic kings of France!
They sould both be on the list.They are both really important.
you forgot Napoleon Dynamite...
Marie Skłodowska - Curie was from Poland not from France. Repaire dnia misteake
Euhm she had the French citizenship.
And? This film is about people from France, not people with French nationality.
She also had Polish nationality. She was from Poland, her name was Maria Skłodowska and "polonium", not "francnium". She came to France at age 23 and "Curie" was her husband name.
Citizenship, not nationality, lol
Marie Curie was Polish = Schwarzenegger is Austrian
Origine yes but she's French like Zinedine Zidane is origine are from algeria
"While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie (she used both surnames)[6][7] never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland.[8] She named the first chemical element that she discovered-polonium, which she isolated in 1898-after her native country.[a]"
My favorite without question is De Gaulle, he still has a major influence in our political life ! For the list, i'am surprised you forgot Louis XIV, his reign was the moment when France was at the top and Versailles , and Molière , The Frensh is the tongue of Molière as the expression says . You can remplace Dumas and Zizou for those 2. Moreover , i think Montesquieu and Voltaire need to be on an equal foot .
Louis XIV is more or less irrelevant to french history. France flourished despite the reign of Louis XIV, not because of it.
When the French voted for their own 100 Greatest Frenchman, Louis XIV came 50th. Moliere was 8th though.
I THINK Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, AKA..... Molière, deserves at less a Honorable Mention...!!
and... Jules Rimet the creator of World Cup Football.... !!! The most popular sport in the Earth.....
and modern olympique games but i don't know thé name
zemasterbenb
Pierre du Coubertin
He started the first modern ones in Wenlock in England, so it dont count...
what about lafayette?
Isn't ping-pong the most played "sport" on the planet?
Curie french, really? Who the fuck does those rankings? She was polish, she only married a frenchman. Polonium not francium...
Marquis de Lafayette, King Louis XIV, Henri Matisse, Marquis de Sade, Jacques Cousteau, William the Conqueror, Nostradamus, Jean Paul Marat, Jacques Cartier, just to name a few.
Other mentions: Gustave Eiffel, creator of Eiffel Tower. Frederic Bartholdi, creator of the Statue of Liberty. Francois Truffant, film director of many films including "The 400 Blows", a film that helped create a new wave in cinema. Gerard Depardieu, film actor.
Although to be fair Depardieu handed in his passport and became Belgian...then Russian...and currently a Unitedarabemiratian (or whatever the correct demonym is).
They were all gay like all Frenchmen.
We aren't the ones having afternoon tea with little biscuits hahahaha
why are you so mean :(((
why do I see you in each fkin video that I watch. By the way why is your profil pic Sissi?
Lol
Oh so you are french ? 😂
So glad you put Victor Hugo on the list, had had the honor of reading both his famous books, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Les Miserable.
I'm surprised to not find Molière in this top
10. Charlemagne
9. Marie Curie
8. Louis XIV
7. Victor Hugo
6. Joan of Arc
5. Voltaire
4. Charles de Gaulle
3. René Descartes
2. Louis Pasteur
1. Napoléon Bonaparte
Lionel Petitvent Curie is from Poland
Rousseau more iconic than Marie Curie!
What about Lafayette?
;3;
GIVE IT UP FOR AMERICA'S FAVORITE FIGHTING FRENCHMAN!
La Fayette was also inportante d'or thé révolution
J'avoue
+synchronizedCreator Yes Hamilton is the best
I must say that René Descartes should be one of the major frenchmen ever. Father of modern philosophy and mathematics and what about Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician and one of the fathers of the computer.
I love lists like these.
Marie Curie was polish not french
She had both nationalities.
Born in Poland
+els van win born in Warsaw
No. She had two citizenships (Polish and French) and one nationality: POLISH.
NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP THATS 2 DIFFERENT THINGS !!!!!
Hello from France ! My favorite iconic people from France is probably Jules Verne ~
Marie Curie was born in Poland which makes her polish having a French Nationality doesn't really make her 100% French
She was a French citizen, so, officially, according to French laws, she was 100% French.
Loved this video, keep it up!
I was surprised that Joan of Arc was only 9th but then the narrator explained why and I was like 'Really?!?' then I watched the rest of the video and then I understood it...
Well half didn't deserve to be above her but it's the public who prefer a FOOTBALLER to a woman who fought in a war and survived it but then get killed by her own comrades... I mean, really people?
+Emily The Weirdo burned by the english you mean, not really camarades...
Actually, she was born by his own country, the France
gautier viret WTF?
+Emily The Weirdo Well we don't even know if she really fought. She very well may just had stand around in the back with a flag and motivate the troops who were at the front
90% of the comments are about Curie being polish.^^
I AGREE
Probably why there are so much dislikes. 90% probably came from Polish people
@@alistairt7544 Not only from Poles, look at the list, there are many actual French ppl in history that would fit here, but yet we can see for example:
Curie who was 100% Polish by born, blood and identity (she thought her children Polish, wanted to spend her Nobel prize to help Poland during war, called her finding after Poland and spend 24 years of her life in Poland before she left due Russian aggressive occupation etc.)
Zidane (xD), again 0% French blood, but at least born and raised in France, still raised among African immigrants not actual French culture, but this is not the case... really? football player? That's French history best?
And also Napoleon... again... 100% Italian from land occupied by France (back then). His parents were local nobles and they were granted with French title after French conquest of Corsica. But okay he was raised as French and had no strong Italian identity (which Curie had, but Polish)
And I think there might be even more.
Really, some more research and author would come out with something better than this... like if someone would do something like this about Poland and include Robert Lewandowski in it I would do a flip.
That accent when you say french words is so cute ^^
Thanks for this video !
Please make one for Germany as well. OK, there are about 15 composers (not including Austrians) and 1 painter to make the list, but it would be awesome.
Top 10 times France got REKT by Great Britain
But the French viewers might surrender half way through
French army issue rifle. Once dropped, never fired.
Dylan Le Lerre French tanks have one gear, reverse.
Randomstuffs261 yup. Very true. Just like the italiens. When said mussolini could have part of france, Mussolini wemt in but then got pushed back be retreating french troops who actually took part of italy. Thats how quick the reverse was!
Great Britain was colonised by the French in 1066 though...
Zidane!? Brigitte Bardot, EdithPiaf !???? What about Louis the XIV, Louis the VXI, Saint Louis, Henri The IV and here I'm just counting France's most important kings that are far more iconic than Zizou Edith Piaf Brigitte Bardot!!!
Where is Charlemagne? One of the greatest monarchs in history, the man who shaped what France would become. Where is he, WatchMojo?
What a stupid list. They put st. Jean d'arc on the 9th spot while she deserves the 1st and did not include Louis the sun king plus Marie Curie is a polish woman not a French
hmm.. .it's seems that is only top 9 iconic people from France ;) well done WatchMojo :) Truly reliable journalistic work :)
The narrator keeps saying "Alexandre Dumas" with a Quebec accent, it's hilarious xD
Happy Bastille Day
It was yesterday
+Greek Mania no i'm french and it's today
Non, c'est le 14 juillet
I love Zidane but seeing him before Victor Hugo, hum...
And i wish you had mentionned Coluche
You make a mistake, Madam Cury was born in Poland.
I'm surprised not even in the honorable mentions there was no mention of Jaques Cousteau. He may not have been as huge as Dumas or Voltaire but he was instrumental in expanding our modern day understanding of the world's oceans and the creatures that lived in them. He helped make it possible for people to dive under water without the use of a complex system by co creating the Aqua-lung and bringing about the SCUBA diving craze. He was a noted ocean explorer, a French naval lieutenant, and a celebrated conservationist pioneering marine conservation along with being an author and filmmaker. He wrote the book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure and directed a film based on it called The Silent World. He was the first person to win a Palm d'or for a documentary at Cannes in 1956 and remained as the only one to do so until Fahrenheit 9/11 came along. He was also a member of the Académie française. Considering what he's accomplished I was sure he was going to at least get an honorable mention. I mean if Brigitte Bandeau can be there he could too.
In 2005, the French voted him as their 9th Greatest Frenchman. I was surprised Louis Braille didn't even make the top 100.
Love the history of Jeanne D'Arc ⚜ & The Three Musketeers 🤺 😊
Zinedine Zidane was once my favourite football player ⚽️
Jeanne d'arc is one of the heroes look up to
Maria Salomea Skłodowska born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1867 in polish family - her farher was polish and her mother was polish.
She named "polonium", in honour of her native Poland.
Marie Curie was polish not french, she named the first chemical element that she discovered-polonium guess from what ,.... Watch Mojo .....
Marie Curie was Polish = Schwarzenegger is Austrian
I was confused when I saw Mojo posted two videos about something French on the same day but then I realised: Happy quatorze juliet mes amis! *hope I spelled it right
thanks ;)
It's juillet not Juliet.;)
thanks ;)
It's juillet not Juliet.;)
thanks dude. We are taking the bastille right now and we have to behead our king!
+AntNiger hahah I know that's english autocorrect hahahaha!
+AntNiger you won't believe what it wanted to make of the rest ;)
@watchmojo.com Biggest fail ever. Marie Curie-Skłodowska wasn't French! She was Polish. Get things straight!
I love the new sound CZcams put when you press like.
I know reading Wikipedia is hard, but Maria Sklodowska-Curie was Polish and she had French husband.
RIP victims of the Bastille Attack 😢
+1
+1
Maria Skłodowska - Curie is from Poland. More books, less CZcams.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie was Polish and was simply married to a french guy, which by no means makes her french, WatchMojo! Shame on u!
Curie was Polish. Married to a Frenchman.
Viva le France!
+Nojan Gamer yes its better(Im french)
Robespierre, Louis XIV?? Whut
Charlemagne was French, wasn't he?
Yep
I don't think France wants to be associated with either of those men
jules verne?
Bryson Blount That doesn't mean they're not iconic.
One person who deserves to be on this list, should be Jean Lafitte. Born in France, he and his brother traveled to the swamplands of Louisiana, and terrorized the Gulf of Mexico as pirates. At one point, Jean Lafitte controlled his own pirate haven called Barataria, and also fought alongside Andrew Jackson against The British, during The Battle of New Orleans.
MARIA SKŁODOWSKA - CURIE was Polish, she only moved to France at 18 to study. Yes, she married a French man and had French citizenship but one of her elements was named POLON not FRANCON and that speaks volumes.
Maria Curie Skłodowska, i can accept that She is on this list, because i thing she was little Polish and little French, but you didnt even mention fact She was born in Poland, and both of her parents were from Poland! also polonium, it shoud speak for itself
So does that mean Hitler's Austrian?
Yes.
BlastDance
Yes. In my opinin he is both, like Curie.
Please do enlighten me, how was Marie Curie French ? Does marrying a Frenchman makes you French ? WTF ?
Do A Top 10 Most Hated CZcams Channel
#1 DramaAlert
#2Fousey
#0 LeafyIsHere
3 mathpodcast he copy so many toutubers
(Marie Curie) ''Her daughter later remarked on the public hypocrisy as the French press often portrayed Curie as an unworthy foreigner when she was nominated for a French honour, but would portray her as a French hero when she received a foreign one such as her Nobel Prizes.'' Ahh the French...
When the French did their own version of The 100 Greatest Britons in 2005, their top 10 were 10. Edith Piaf, 9. Jacques Cousteau, 8. Moliere, 7. Bourvil, 6. Victor Hugo, 5. Coluche, 4. Marie Curie, 3. Abbé Pierre, 2. Louis Pasteur, 1. Charles de Gaulle.
Where is baguette!?!?!??
XD Baguette a person why not
Valdoy2866™ IT IS NOT!??!?!?! xD
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+Hanzo Shimada terrorist attack in France now 😢😢
zemasterbenb Seriously ?
+zemasterbenb i dont see it in TF1
Only here for the French pronunciation!
They fucking pronounce it wrong.
It's not that bad.
JudoMMA1 Je peux t'assurer que si, ou alors on n'a pas regardé la même vidéo. Je ne demande pas que ce soit parfait, mais merde, ils auraient pu faire un effort, quand même.
Ils sont Canadien.
+sweiland75 Oui je suis au courant, c'est pour ça que je dis qu'ils auraient pu faire un putain d'effort, justement.
Always interesting to see what view of France have people outside of the country. Your accent is fun to hear too (but hey, most French don't have a great accent too)
Marie Curie was from Poland. Her full name was Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Note the name of what she discovered: "polonium" from "Poland".
"you know France has produced a lot of important individuals when Joan of Arc only makes it to the 9th place"
She was nothing but a mascot. Solid generals made all the job to kick the English out of France.
Also she was a noble (the "D'"/"of" in her name), not a peasant. She was only made a shepherd by romantic 19th re-writing of history, so that she looks closer from Jesus.
True. But there aren't many people who know that, apparently.
Nop actually her name was just Jeanne and "D'Arc" is just one of the many nicknames attributed to her. "D'Arc" has actually been disputed as the "main" nickname since it indeed gives the impression she was a Noble. "D'Arc" here would mean "From the bride" though...a variation from the very common "Dupont" which means the same.
>Iconic People From France
>Marie Curie-Sklodowska
Choose one.
really good
"10th July 2016"
A date the French will remember very well for years to come ;)
RIP to the 80+ killed while celebrating Bastille day in Nice by an act of terror. You will be remembered.
as a heros! xD
+Totoro Desperado aren't heroes.Just victims.
Marie was Polish Napoleon was Corsican and hated the French Edith should be first and where is Pepe LePew
Pepe LePew isn't french but an american invention to make fun of us ... Napoleon was born one year after Corsica was annexed by french so he's french and for Curie she spoke french,she graduated in France she founded a family with Pierre Curie a french and stayed in France so of course her origins are polish but a part of her were french whatever the Poles will say... She's the two ... And don't think i say that because i'm french i have myself polish origins from my dad.
Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Polish scientist which has married the french scientist Pierre Curie.
I love the accent XD so funny ;)
I consider myself lucky to watch Zidane is his prime, long live the legend
Maria Skłodowska-Curie wasn't French, she was Polish, born and educated in Poland, and emigrated to France at age of 24. Her childrens were speaking Polish too.
I believe stating that Marie Curie was "originally" from Poland is a vast understatement as it somehow implies she was only born in Poland and then, raised in France, which is totally false. Marie Curie was Polish, she only had a French citizenship. Not only was she Polish, she was raised in Poland, Polish was her first language and both of her parents were Polish, but she also herself felt Polish.
The bottom line here is that I don't even see a reason she is in this video in the first place, since she was not French.
Wow.. some great people on this list.
good to hear a narrator speaking well in the correct accent
Hey Guys please don;t forget that first and foremost Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist. While a French citizen, and never lost her sense of Polish identity.
Can you guys do the top ten lawnmowers from movies?
Missed my favourite Jacque Cousteau, polished underwater exploration like no one else.
In the honorable mentions you should have add : Louis De Funes, Coluche, Andre The Giant, Blaise Pacal, Sophie Germain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Yanne, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Charles Fourier, Jean Dujardin, Paul Valéry,The commandant Coustaud, Jean De La Fontaine, Jules Verne, Charles Beaudelaire, and so on...And in the top 10 maybe : Simone Veil (Who fought for women's rights), Robert Badinter (Who abolished death penalty), Jean Jaurès, Léon Blum, l'Abbé Pierre, Molière, Louis Lumière (without him maybe youtube would have never existed) etc...
dear narrator,
You're so canadian! that's why your so excellent at pronouncing French names. It's really legit. I hate terrorism and hackers. that is all.
I hope you do one about Brazil some day
i really like the way you american (foreign people in general too) say french names. but nice video
Nice video
Jean Giraud aka Möebius should have had a mention.One of the most influential comic artists.Also did designs for movies like Alien,Abyss,5th element.Dune.
WTF didn't the French SELL OUT Joan to the English!!
I love the way French people say their city's
Maria Skłodowska-Curie - a Polish scientist married to a French physicist. Check your facts before you post something!
My favorite people who were in Paris are Kanye West and Jay-Z
you sort of forgot Louis XiV. He is kind of an important one.
do top 10 times you fucked up someone's nationality with Maria Skłodowska-Curie on first place
John Calvin deserved at least a honorable mention. And seeing this list made me lament that Stanley Kubrick never got to make his Napoleon movie. Also, I'm looking foward for top 10 iconic people from Brazil.