The 74 french bean genotypes were evaluated for twenty two quantitative traits to study the character association and path analysis during Jan-May, 2014. Pod yield was highly significant and positive correlated with days to 50% flowering, seed yield per plant, plant height, number of pods per plant, number of pod clusters per plant, number of pods per cluster, number of seeds per pod, pod length and weight of single pod. Path coefficient analysis revealed that single pod weight and number of pods per plant had the highest positive contribution towards the pod yield.Key words: French bean, Genotypic correlation, Phenotypic correlation, Path coefficient analysis, Pod yield.French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), 2n=22 is one of the most popular leguminous vegetable crop in many part of the world. India has about 137.54 thousand ha area under bean cultivation and the production is 1370.21 thousand MT with an annual productivity 9.96 MT/ha green pod (Anonymous, 2015). Study of correlation between different quantitative characters provides an idea of association that could be effectively exploited to formulate selection strategy for improving yield components. The efficiency of selection can be improved by estimating the relative degree of association between different pair of characters. The path coefficient technique helps in estimating the direct and indirect contribution various traits out of the total correlation towards yield. Pleiotropy is the simple property of genes which affects two or more characters. So, it carries simultaneous variation in the characters. Pleiotropy does not necessarily cause a detectable correlation because correlation resulting from it is the overall effects of the gene that affects both the characters. Some genes increase both characters (positive correlation) with other increase one and decrease the other (negative correlation).The present investigation was conducted at Vegetable Research Centre, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, U.S. Nagar (Uttarakhand) during Jan-May, 2014. The experimental material comprised of 74 genotypes. All genotypes were collected from GBPUAT Pantnagar. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. Each genotype was sown in three meter row length following plant spacing at 30 x 20 cm apart. The observations were recorded on five randomly selected competitive plants per replication for each entry on twenty two quantitative traits. Correlation and path coefficient analysis were calculated following Searle's (1961) and Dewey and Lu (1959), respectively.Seed yield per plant showed positive and highly significant correlation with days to 50% maturity, 100 seed weight, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, seed length, pod yield per plant and pod yield per hectare (Table 1). Similar findings were also reported by Karasu and Oz (2010), Ahmed (2011), Ahmed andKamaluddin (2013) and Negahi et al. (2014). Pod yield per hectare shows highly significant correlation with pod yield per plant, ...