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*'''Occitans,''' from Southern France, often felt denied the right of their cultural heritage and some relocated out of France in quiet protest to other countries, esp. '''French-speaking Canada''' and other parts of the French Empire and French-speaking areas of Europe. Also there have been Occitan-speaking settlers in '''Pigüé, Argentina'''; sporadically '''Mexico and Chile'''; and even into the US in '''Valdese, North Carolina'''. <ref name="list"/> | *'''Occitans,''' from Southern France, often felt denied the right of their cultural heritage and some relocated out of France in quiet protest to other countries, esp. '''French-speaking Canada''' and other parts of the French Empire and French-speaking areas of Europe. Also there have been Occitan-speaking settlers in '''Pigüé, Argentina'''; sporadically '''Mexico and Chile'''; and even into the US in '''Valdese, North Carolina'''. <ref name="list"/> | ||
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*'''Huguenots, or French Protestants'''often migrated to nearby Protestant majority lands like '''Netherlands, Germany, the UK, the United States and Canada (then British North America), South Africa, and other lands like Switzerland, Scandinavia, Poland (the Prussian Empire), Hungary; and Australia and New Zealand '''in the 19th century.<ref name="list/ | *'''Huguenots, or French Protestants'''often migrated to nearby Protestant majority lands like '''Netherlands, Germany, the UK, the United States and Canada (then British North America), South Africa, and other lands like Switzerland, Scandinavia, Poland (the Prussian Empire), Hungary; and Australia and New Zealand '''in the 19th century.<ref name="list"/> | ||
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*'''Corsicans from the French administered island of Corsica, emigration to Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States.<ref name="diaspora"/> | *'''Corsicans from the French administered island of Corsica, emigration to Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States.<ref name="diaspora"/> | ||