<P> This is a list of cheeses from France . Traditionally, there are from 350 to 450 distinct types of French cheese grouped into eight categories' les huit familles de fromage' . There can be many varieties within each type of cheese, leading some to claim closer to 1,000 different types of French cheese . </P> <P> In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle was famously quoted as saying "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?") </P>

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