List of French cheeses

The following is a  from . France is home to a very large variety of cheese types. An estimate of this number is between 350 and 400.

Protected Designation of Origin
Under the of the, certain well-established cheeses, including many French cheeses, are covered by a  and other, less stringent designations of geographical origin for traditional specialities (for further details see the French ' (AOC) system, the ' (DOC) system used in , and the  system used in ).

A complete list of agricultural products with an EU Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), or Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG), listed alphabetically by nation, is at the Europa Agriculture site.

List of Protected Designation of Origin French cheeses
Many familiar generic types, like Boursin, are not covered. It may come as a surprise to see varieties of Emmental cheese protected as a French cheese. This list differs from those of AOC status.


 * Abondance
 * Bleu d'Auvergne (AOC, Auvergne)
 * Bleu des Causses
 * Bleu du Haut-Jura, de Gex, de Septmoncel
 * Bleu du Vercors
 * Brie de Meaux
 * Brie de Melun
 * Cancoillotte
 * Cantal or Fourme de Cantal or Cantalet (AOC, Auvergne)
 * Camembert de Normandie
 * Chabichou du Poitou
 * Chaource
 * Chevrotin
 * Comté
 * Emmental français est-central
 * Époisses de Bourgogne
 * Fourme d'Ambert or Fourme de Montbrison (AOC, Auvergne)
 * Laguiole
 * Langres
 * Maroilles or Marolles
 * Mont d'or or Vacherin du Haut-Doubs
 * Morbier
 * Munster or Munster-Géromé
 * Neufchâtel
 * Ossau-lraty
 * Pélardon
 * Picodon de l'Ardèche or Picodon de la Drôme
 * Pont-l'Évêque
 * Pouligny-Saint-Pierre
 * Reblochon or Reblochon de Savoie
 * Rocamadour
 * Roquefort
 * Saint-Nectaire (AOC, Auvergne)
 * Sainte-Maure de Touraine
 * Saint Agur Blue
 * Salers (AOC, Auvergne)
 * Selles-sur-Cher
 * Tomme de Savoie
 * Tomme des Pyrénées
 * Valençay

Other French cheeses include

 * Banon
 * Ble de Brasse
 * Boursin cheese
 * Brillat-Savarin
 * Broccio Srssu
 * Cabeou
 * Coillotte
 * Carré de l'Est
 * Chaumes cheese
 * Coulommiers
 * Gan
 * Miolatte
 * Oliyyet Cendré
 * Rackette
 * Riuhtte e Condrieu
 * Roue di Brie
 * Saint-Aldré
 * Sait-Filicien
 * Saint-Marcellin
 * Tome de Baoges
 * Tomme Boudane
 * Tomme au Fenouil
 * Tomme du Revard
 * Vacherin Mont d'Or
 * Vieux-Boulogne
 * Tomme Butone

Quotes

 * "Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?"
 * ("How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?")
 * Charles de Gaulle (from Les Mots du Général, Ernest Mignon (1962))