History Main / EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench

* Even happens on French TV. [=TF1=]'s long-running popular sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' ran on this trope, dealing with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Both the "girls next door" and their male neighbours are walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, as are the troop of extras in the gym. Even the [[InformedAttribute slobby Marc]] is above-average good looking and presentable.

* Even happens on French TV. Creator/{{TF1}}'s long-running popular sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' ran on this trope, dealing with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Both the "girls next door" and their male neighbours are walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, as are the troop of extras in the gym. Even the [[InformedAttribute slobby Marc]] is above-average good looking and presentable.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': How do you make an alluring vampire even sexier? Make him a French vampire, ''bien sûr'' [[note]]of course[[/note]]! Lestat de Lioncourt is a Frenchman who speaks English with a French accent, which imbues his baritone voice with a seductive quality, and he occasionally includes [[GratuitousFrench French words and sentences]] (Lily remarks that Lestat's French [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench "sure sounds nice"]]). He also embodies the French stereotype of being extremely romantic and debauched, so this magnifies his sex appeal. In Season 1, Lestat is the [[MrFanservice most overtly sexualized character]] because he has the most nude and {{Shirtless Scene}}s.

* ''Series/LostGirl''. In "La Fae Époque", Bo is [[PensieveFlashback walking through Dyson's memories]] of his time in 1899 Paris, with the other contemporary characters appearing as people he's met. Bo's LoveInterest Lauren then appears as TheChanteuse, and Bo objects when she has to leave in the middle of the song because that's what Dyson did. "No, she hasn't finished singing yet! In French!"

* Even happens on French TV. Creator/{{TF1}}'s long-running popular sitcom ran on this trope, dealing with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Both the "girls next door" and their male neighbours are walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, as are the troop of extras in the gym. Even the [[InformedAttribute slobby Marc]] is above-average good looking and presentable.

* Even happens on French TV. Creator/{{TF1}}'s long-running popular sitcom
ran on this trope, dealing with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Both the "girls next door" and their male neighbours are walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, as are the troop of extras in the gym. Even the [[InformedAttribute slobby Marc]] is above-average good looking and presentable.

* Even happens on French TV. Creator/{{TF1}}'s long-running popular sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' ran on this trope, dealing with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Both the "girls next door" and their male neighbours are walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, as are the troop of extras in the gym. Even the [[InformedAttribute slobby Marc]] is above-average good looking and presentable.

* [[CatchPhrase If you wasn't]] Wrestling/{{Maryse}}, [[BadassBoast you would want to be.]]

* The fans of ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' (as evidenced through fanart) would seem to indicate this as the case for [[spoiler:[[{{Bifauxnen}} Charlotte Dunois]]]].
* The general rule in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is that if you are French, you will be ridiculously hot. Renee is described as someone who would be in ''Playboy'' had it existed at the time, whereas Huey and Sylvie even distract [[EvenTheGuysWantHim same-gendered]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer onlookers]]. Also Huey's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

* One ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode had the family trying to decide what ethnicity to be. Dick asked Mary, an anthropoligist, what the best ethnic group was. She claimed it was all subjective, but when he asked which ethnicity was sexiest, she immediately responded, "Italians. Smokey, swarthy, gotta have 'em."

* Beauxbatons in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' - specifically Fleur Delacour, and possibly other students. This is because Fleur is part-Veela, and full-Veela are naturally alluring to men, as we see during the 1994 Quidditch World Cup.
** [[ExaggeratedWorse This is highly promiscuous]] in the films, where the other schools sent single-gender groups to Hogwarts. Beauxbatons' delegation is ''all'' pretty French girls in chic uniforms who summon butterflies and blow kisses to the Hogwarts boys.

** Ted runs into his ex Stella after she left him at the altar, his friends rate how he handled the situation favorably on a scale from Sobbing-like-a-baby-about-how-his-life-is-ruined to Dating-someone-exactly-like-her-but-French-and-with-[[BuxomIsBetter bigger-boobs]] (in the fantasy, even Stella's new husband tries to hit on her French version in front of her).

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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** On the {{pilot}} episode, Barney comments that Lebanese women have replaced half-Asian women in his fantasies.
** Ted runs into his ex Stella after she left him at the altar, his friends rate how he handled the situation favorably on a scale from Sobbing-like-a-baby-about-how-his-life-is-ruined to Dating-someone-exactly-like-her-but-French-and-with-[[BuxomIsBetter bigger-boobs]] (in the fantasy, even Stella's new husband tries to hit on her French version in front of her).
** Robin returns to New York from her vacation with an Argentinian boyfriend. Every woman in the pub swoons over Gael's foreign charm, his accent, his stories etc. Ted and Barney envy him and pretend to be out-of-towners to score hot chicks as well. It works.

* In Series/WakingTheDead Stella Goodman is half-French half-English and often seen as the sexiest member of the team.
* Played with in a number of ways in ''Series/AlloAllo'', variously with the sultry Yvette, the implied affair between the bed-ridden grandmother and [=LeClerc=], the way in which both the waitresses AND the camp German officer are attracted to the balding, middle-aged Rene, another waitress named Mimi [=LaBonque=] and oh so many others....
* Even happens on French TV. Creator/{{TF1}}'s long-running popular sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' ran on this trope, dealing with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Both the "girls next door" and their male neighbours are walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, as are the troop of extras in the gym. Even the [[InformedAttribute slobby Marc]] is above-average good looking and presentable.
* In one episode of ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', Rebecca stays at home with depression and watches a French film, where a French woman says "I'm so depressed." Because the French woman looks so much sexier being depression than Rebecca does, she imagines singing the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DCoGCVUxY "Sexy French Depression,"]] which both embraces this trope and deconstructs it, showing that even if she were French, depression is ''not'' sexy.
* ''Series/TheAffair'': Noah's new love interest in season 3 is Juliette, a French college professor who specializes in medieval CourtlyLove literature.

* Duncan’s season one lover in ''{{Series/Highlander}}'', Tessa Noel, was a sexy Frenchwoman, and the series writers weren’t afraid to run with it. She takes a very steamy shower in the pilot that required extra CensorSteam for the American version and had a few provocative love scenes with Duncan which also tended to get EditedForSyndication.