History Main / EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench

Compare [[GorgeousGaijin Foreign Fanservice]] and, of course, EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench. '''[[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Merci de bien vouloir vous abstenir d'ajouter des exemples issus de la vie réelle!]]'''

Compare ForeignFanservice and, of course, EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench. '''[[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Merci de bien vouloir vous abstenir d'ajouter des exemples issus de la vie réelle!]]'''

* In ''Film/LoveActually'' an English guy moves to America specifically so that he can exploit this trope. [[spoiler:It works.]]

** In a later episode Ted runs into 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).

* ''Literature/TheNewHumans'' has a Frenchwoman, Melusine. According to the narration, when people ask to be drawn like [[Film/{{Titanic}}their French girls,]] they really mean her.

* ''Franchise/{{Tsukipro}}'' is full of beautiful characters, but Rikka is one of the ~10% of them who goes past that, into "so pretty it's hard to function around him" territory... and he's [[ButNotTooForeign half]] French.

* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' has quite a few attractive women in it's roster, but the most overtly sexualized is probably Widowmaker, who wears a SpyCatsuit with AbsoluteCleavage, high heels, and a [[MaleGaze very defined ass]]. She is, of course, the representative from France.

** In a later episode Ted runs into [[spoiler:Stella]] after she [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:Stella]]'s new husband tries to hit on her French version in front of her).

* Played on ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' with Stefan and Damon Salvatore. They are American-born but are of Italian descent on their paternal side.

Compare ForeignFanservice and, of course, EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench. '''[[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Merci de bien vouloir vous abstenir d'ajouter des exemples issus de la vie réelle !]]'''

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Certain nationalities are stereotypically presented as inherently "sexier" than others, to those not of that nationality. Often the [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench accent]], or, if female, a FrenchMaid dress, has a part in it.

* The fans of ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' (and even the fanart) would seem to indicate this as the case for [[spoiler:[[{{Bifauxnen}} Charlotte Dunois]]]].

* Even happens on French TV. Creator/{{TF1}}'s long-running popular sitcom ''Les Filles d'à Côté'' 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/Les Filles d'à Côté'' 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 ''Les Filles d'à Côté'' 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 StephenSondheim's ''Theatre/AnyoneCanWhistle'' repressed nurse Fay Apple disguises herself in a WigDressAccent as a sexy French woman (The Lady from Lourdes) and seduces Hapgood. She is only able to be uninhibited when in the costume.

* Beauxbatons in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', excepting 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.

* In ''LoveActually'' an English guy moves to America specifically so that he can exploit this trope. [[spoiler:It works.]]

* The general rule in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is that if you are French, you will be ridiculously hot. [[HelloNurse 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.

* Out of ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'''s paltry female cast, the designated potential love interest -- introduced being courted by Porkypine -- is Miz Ma'm'selle Hephzibah, a skunk who speaks in a mix of broken English and [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign sometimes-even-broken-er French]].

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

* Played the other way around in ''À nous les petites anglaises'', in which several French schoolboys become infatuated with the local girls while on a foreign exchange to England. It's quite realistic since at the time English girls and women were considered more "liberated" than their French counterparts ( it had to to mainly with better access to contraception)

* EddieIzzard mentioned this in one of his sketches in ''Dress To Kill''. According to him, French actors play more "esoteric" characters in American movies: "Hello, my name is Pierre. I come from Paris. I have come to have sex with your family." -- "Help yourself!" -- "... Because of the debt of honor to General Lafayatte!" -- "You know your own history, yeah?"

* There's an episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' where Shawn finds out this nerdy girl is Swiss (yet he invariably refers to her as Swedish) and [[BeautifulAllAlong makes her popular]] by playing up the stereotype for FetishFuel.