The France Pavilion epitomises a bold, ambitious and innovative vision of cultural, scientific, social and industrial issues. It celebrates the French model of innovation that combines competitiveness and sustainable development.
This French view of the world is a hymn to Love
“If just one feeling could be associated with the French mindset, it would definitely be love.
Whether it is being celebrated, wept for, depicted in our arts, embodied in individuals’ desire to transcend as seen in our monuments, carried in our patriotism over the centuries, directed towards our countryside and nature in our expertise and our traditions, love runs through France’s veins.
This heartfelt passion has often been elevated into a kind of spiritual journey. We are all facing the same challenges - be it peace between nations, the future of the planet or protecting freedoms in every society. This journey, this adventure, must continue in the coming decades and beyond.
This is the French vision of the world, a hymn to Love, boldness and dialogue that visitors to the France Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka will discover.
It will be embodied in the offerings of our companies, artists and scientists, and all of them in their own particular way will be trying to bring to the world our French vision of rationality, beauty, progress and freedom, and with it, the ambition, as with love, to use a universal language that expresses hope to the world of the future.”
Emmanuel Macron
« This is the French vision of the world, a hymn to love, boldness and dialogue that visitors to the France Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka will discover. »
Emmanuel Macron President of the French Republic
A concept building
A hymn to Love is the guiding principle running through the France Pavilion and the narrative backbone to the entire visitor experience. It is integrated into and extends throughout the Pavilion, in the exhibition spaces and through both B-to-B and general-public events, enabling every visitor to enjoy a unique experience on a journey that appeals to all five senses. The France Pavilion sets out to question the place of humans in their environment, with the aim of creating empowerment, the ability and desire for a commitment that will enable each of us to take action for our future.
« A World Expo is a magical time for sharing and passion. This is even truer when it is being held in Osaka, a Japanese city that encourages us all to imagine life in the future. France is responding in an optimistic, committed way with its own values and sensitivities to a world faced with numerous challenges. It invites the Expo’s 28 million visitors to enjoy an outstanding experience, an immersive France Pavilion, a landmark building that is the incarnation of a hymn to Love. »
Jacques Maire Chairman of COFREX and Commissioner General for France at OSAKA 2025
A hymn to Love
In Japanese culture, the legend of the red thread, or Akai Ito, refers to the joining of two beings by an invisible, indestructible magic thread attached to their little fingers. The France Pavilion, with its own “red thread”, seeks to provide a response to social and environmental challenges by inspiring individual and group commitment. It offers a new vision of the future, one guided by the meaning of life and its most beautiful feature, Love, through a shared, universal worldview.
A major international event
For Japanese people, all matter, whether of human, animal, plant or mineral origin, “carries life within it”. The 2025 Osaka Expo conveys this vision with the theme that has been chosen for the Expo: “Designing tomorrow’s society, imagining our lives in the future”.
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