Each year at this time the weekly "Journal du Dimanche" (JDD) publishes the results of a survey it does into the personalities the French people prefer. For some years now the singer/songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman has topped the list and as last year he was followed by actor Omar Sy with Dany Boon climbing one place to third. Making a starring debut at fourth place is World Cup footballer Kylian Mbappe, followed the astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Zinedine Zidane.
Notably there are no women in the top 10, in fact best placed is Sophie Marceau at 16th (down 11 places).
Amongst women asked, the top two remain the same with a rapper called Soprano third. Men chose Goldman and Sy, but then Zidane and Mbappe. Although the paper asked people from different political persuasions for their favourites (LREM voters put Macron first...the only politician to top any group), there appears to be no split by ages, which would be interesting.
