The 10 Sexiest French People of All Time
In junior high, we thanked them for the French kiss. In college, we thanked them for the ménage à trois. Love them or hate them, there’s no denying that the French are damn sexy. Take a trip across the pond and find out if what these hotties lack on the battlefield, they can make up for in the bedroom. OTP’s list of the 10 Sexiest French People of All Time should help you narrow down your pickings once you get there.
Born in France to a Greek mother and an Italian father, Gilles is the perfect recipe for hotness. Ladies everywhere drooled with Kim Cattrall while watching Gilles shower next door in Sex and the City: The Movie. The scene was enough to earn Gilles a Bravo A-List Award for “Best Rear,” but it was the brief peak at the other side, which was anything but ‘petite,’ that forever thrust him into women’s fantasies. With nothing left to the imagination, we know there is not an inch (or many inches) of imperfection on his body.
The current first lady of France and former supermodel told a French magazine: “I am monogamous from time to time but I prefer polygamy… Love lasts a long time, but burning desire, two or three weeks.” The laundry list of high profile names that have passed through the revolving boudoir door of this self-proclaimed “tamer of men” includes Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Kevin Costner, Donald Trump (eww), and even a former French socialist prime minister.
Voted the world’s sexiest news anchor, Mélissa first gained international fame when a compilation video of her reading the news went viral. Staring at a ridiculously hot news anchor and being unable to understand anything reported are two reasons watching French news is better than absorbing the word vomit spewed by white-haired dudes on CNN.
The benefactor of Diane Lane’s affair in Unfaithful, women all over New York began bumping into sexy strangers, hoping it would lead to similar sex-capades. His conquests on screen are only rivaled by his conquests off, with a résumé that includes Mira Sorvino, Kylie Minogue, and currently, Halle Berry. But, with Olivier’s reputation as a ladies’ man, there is still ample opportunity to be his femme du jour.
In the 1956 classic …And God Created Women, Brigitte played the temptress that tested the limits of sexuality in society and the seam strength of ’50s skinny jeans. By getting tied up in a love rectangle with two brothers and a sugar daddy, men of all ages could easily fit this French vixen into their fantasies. An entire generation of sexually oppressed men would have happily given up a rib for the likes of Brigitte, solidifying her spot in sexual immortality.
While his coital conquests across Europe are less documented than his military ones (or his height), they aren’t any less impressive. The book, Sex Life of an Emperor: The Many Loves of Napoleon Bonaparte documents his many mistresses on the warpath while juggling an old lady back home. Although only one of his two wives was able to bear him a single heir, he admitted to knocking up two of his side squeezes and is suspected of doing the same to at least three others. Infamously pussy-whippable in his day, foreign heads of state even arranged mistresses for Napoleon in order to get on his good side. One of the greatest conquerors in modern history was still, at heart, a French romantic.
The epically hot Laetitia Casta has not been stingy with her sexiness. Gracing the cover of over 100 magazines, often naked, she has also appeared in a series of generous sex scenes in movies Gitano and La Bicyclette Bleu. She’s been the face of companies for creams, fragrances, fashion, and jewelry, making her sexiness easy to find no matter what level of censorship you are up against with your work firewall.
Winner of three NBA championships, this Belgium-born Frenchman is equally well-known for his marriage to the two-time Maxim #1 hottie Eva Longoria. When he’s not slaying opponents on the court and goddesses in the bedroom, he’s whipping up French hip-hop albums. In early 2011, Tony proved to be the ultimate team player by splitting up with Eva– freeing them both up for the masses. We’ll take this hunk of man meat au jus.
Who can make a four-hour French art film watchable? Emmanuelle Béart– who is naked for three of them. French actresses love to bare it all on camera, and Emmanuelle took this to the extreme in La Belle Noiseuse, which is far from her only full-frontal film appearance. At age 40, she appeared naked in Elle, still the magazine’s all time best selling issue, which created the greatest spike in MILF-hunting license applications France has ever seen.
Looks alone could solidify Vincent’s spot on this list, but his role in Ocean’s 12 allowed him to display his amazing physical skills in the Brazilian fusion of martial arts and dance known as capoeira. In Black Swan, Natalie Portman’s insanity was validated when she inexplicably turned down Vincent’s initial advances.
Voilà! This caliber of French sexy should set your compass relentlessly pointing east. Create your own Tour de France and enjoy some wine, dine, and sexy time along the way. Bon voyage!
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Idiot, Carla Bruni isn’t french, she’s italian… STUPID!