What's a typical "French face" supposed to look like?

Freckles

Something about the mouth.

Smugness

Massive nose.

Parrot beaks on the women; big, bulbous, cleft noses on the men.

I always think of french women as being rather gamine looking like Leslie Caron

Because of the way they talk, a lot of them kinda look like they're sucking in their cheeks and pouting/pursing their lips. A very condescending look

OP - question for you- I'm mostly Polish, but have never been to Poland, curious what characteristics stand out of us Pols?

R8 They look like potatoes.

Patchy facial hair and baked bean teeth from the smoking.

Jean Reno. Louis Garrel.

charle de gaulle

Just google image Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Claude Killy, Arnaud Clement, Auguste Escoffier, Jean-Paul Gaultier, among others.

I don't know how else to describe this, but thin faces and pointy features that shouldn't work on paper but that work on execution. Louis Garrel, Gaspard Ulliel, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Camillie Cottin from Call My Agent (Dix Pour Cent ) is a fine example. And a fantastic show, btw.

Exquisite bone structure.

Men: Patrice Chereau - Nicolas Sarkozy Women: It's a matter of style more than features.

Model Clement Chabernaud besides his frenchyfrenchfrenchypoo name looks French, mature.

And he looked french as a Twink.

frenchy French french clement

I don't think he looks that French. He looks like he could be Jamie Dornan's cousin.

Somewhat pinched.

They never smile.

Frenchy twink with frenchy French French name Maxence Danet-Fauvel, cleaned up

Dirty French, same boy

no does not look Irish. French born beauties, male or female, thin or full lipped, get a set of the mouth, as mentioned about, from all that French vowel work. Their mouths look like their pretty but carnal language.

Stanley Weber

Nicolas Cazalé

Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Most Europeans look pretty similar, we have common ancestry.

The question is like asking people to identify the differences between people from New York v Baltimore.

Don't look at me, I'm half Hungarian and half Greek!

Long noses, long faces.

Catherine Deneuve once served as the official model for a revised image of Marianne, the embodiment of the French Republic.

People from different parts of France look different. From Breton cream-skin fairness to the human olives around Marseille.

Cute.

[quote] Most Europeans look pretty similar, we have common ancestry.

I agree. I also really don't think most white Americans (and white Canadians and Australians) look that different from the people of the British Isles either. Which makes sense because majority of their ancestry is usually English, Irish or German. Same with many African-Americans who don't look that different from West and Central Africans though they cane have more European features due to admixture.

The biggest differences is probably weight and height due to diet and environment.

Very French

It's like East Asians: there are differences, with some overlap.

Swarthy Spaniards don't look like fair Spaniards, who can look classically French. Southern Italians don't look Norwegian. Northern Italians can look German. Etc.

Craggy face, huge nose with bulbous cleft tip, eyes close together, wry mouth. A young Gerard Depardieu:

Marcel Duchamp

Marine Le Pen

It looks like this...

Ask Emily in Paris, OP.

I’ve always thought of that photo of the French man watching the Nazis occupy Paris as the typical “French” face.

Less likely to have blue eyes than Brits or Scandinavians

R44, Marseille. Says so in the caption.

La Beouf

I've played around with a lot of French men. The typical face of French man is gaunt. He also has a prominent nose.

Case in point, former French pairs skater Morgan Cipres (who has his own lascivious history, allegedly).

Big schnoz and small-ish stature. I don't find many French men attractive.

this

Noses like they don't intend to be cheated out of their share of air and a mouth made for snugging marbles. High foreheads.

Marie-France Pisier.

Could not be mistaken for anything other than French.

Mitterand had the classic French face.

But even more than his face, those gesticulating arms marked him as French from a kilometre away.

When I think of a typical Frenchman, I think of Yves Montand... even though he was Italian.

I hope you realize this is a silly discussion. French is a nationality, just like American is a nationality. People from all over the world have gone to France to start a new life or just stopped by long enough to have babies with the natives (like the Germans in WW2) so they are a mixed people, just as we are a mixed people. That said, Louis Garrel looks super-French to me. He is maybe not so mixed.

They have the face of a hamster and smell like elderberries!

Dick nose, circles under eyes, thin like a cigarette, nasty yellow teeth, always have their mouth open and like spilling crumbs or wine all over themselves.

The have thin mustaches and wear berets.

R48 so basically, the opposite of what’s attractive.

they have certain amphibious features?

Handsome like this

[quote] Don't look at me, I'm half Hungarian and half Greek!

Don't forget Jewish, Sarko at R31. And therefore not truly French ever.

Alain Delon

Almond shaped eyes are said to be typical of the people from Brittany.

Macron is classically French-looking.

They seem more stoic. Intense eyes. Hair that looks a bit messy. They look like they are sucking air in their mouths sometimes. That exchange student in The UK show The Inbetweeners was a good stereotype.

[quote]What's a typical "French face" supposed to look like?

One smells them before one sees them.

Like a ferret

Rat like

R49. More details regarding his sluttiness, please!

French tennis player PHH looks like (what I imagine is) the “typical Frenchman”.

all of these faces

Look up Christine Lagarde; her picture is in the dictionary, next to typical French female facial structure.

Serge Gainsbourg (*hurl!*)

Leslie

Angular, longish facial structure, dark hair, brown eyes with a dead gaze, large nose, long neck, lean,

I think of: wider-set, more oval eyes (no round American peepers); dark circles under the eyes; skin is even-toned with olive or yellow undertones and no puffiness (not a lot of chubby cheeks); may have wrinkles around the mouth but no worry lines between the eyebrows; healthy and bouncy hair

Like this

Juliette Binoche...

Francois I

Matthieu Charneau

Louis Garrel and the whole cast of La Belle Personne.

R11, FWIW, Jean Reno is ethnically Spanish.

This model

A face to slap

François Civil

Beady eyes. A face of planes and angles. Brown hair. There are few natural blondes if any.

I don't have anything to contribute about typically French faces.

I just wanted to post a picture of Benoît Hamon (khaki pants) with what looks like an impressive bulge.

No one likes French people. Not even their fellow Europeans like them.

Usually kind of a pinched, mousy, rat face. I don’t mean to be harsh. But that’s my experience.

Brian Joubert…Gallic face. The eyes I think.

They are handsome but a little pointy with big noses. A close friend is Quebecois Metis. He's brown with some Native features but also has the delicate French thing. Still gorgeous in his 50s.

I think the actor Pierre Niney is what would happen if a caricaturist was told to exaggerate Frenchness to its Frenchiest

Melvil Poupaud has, to me, a typically Frenchman's face:

Angular face, long bony nose.

Dear Gaspard

Thin pursed lips, beady eyes.Maybe a mustache but not always. At least that's men. Women, Idk, it's more about how they dress.

Cherie!

French men have craggy faces and big ol' noses, no matter their ethnic background, it seems. I always thought of Jean-Paul Belmondo as the quintessential French-looking guy, but his father was of Italian descent, born in Algeria. Go figure. Jean Gabin also has a very French face. For women, my mind immediately goes to Catherine Deneuve even though she's more of an aspiration than reality - which would probably be closer to Edith Piaf's look

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Sylvain Potard

Brice Dulin

Matthieu Charneau

Atypical Frenchie.

R90 Diaper bulge

Isn’t Deneuve Alsatian? They tend to be more Germanic in appearance than the average French person.