France Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

= Emigration from France =

There was no systematic, official method of emigration, and few French emigration lists are available.  

Significant numbers of emigrants left France during the following periods:  

'''1538 to 1685'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; Protestants flee religious persecutions in France.</nowiki>  

'''1632 to 1713'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; French settle Quebec and Acadia (Canada).</nowiki>  

'''1722'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; Alsatian colonies established in the Holy Roman Empire (Austria-Hungary).</nowiki>  

'''1764 to 1786'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; Alsatians colonize Russia, Ukraine, and Banat.</nowiki>  

'''1785:&nbsp;''' Some exiled Acadians shipped from France to Louisiana.  

'''1789 to 1791'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; About 500,000 refugees flee the French Revolution for neighboring nations and the Americas. About half later returned.</nowiki>  

'''1804 to 1832'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; Additional Alsatians emigrate to Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Banat.</nowiki>  

'''1815 to 1817'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; Political turmoil after the fall of Napoleon leads to a wave of French emigration to neighboring countries and the Americas.</nowiki>  

'''1830 to 1962'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; French colonize Algeria (Africa).</nowiki>  

'''1830s, 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; Agents go from town to town recruiting emigrants, mostly in Alsace-Lorraine. Some went to America, others to Russia.</nowiki>  

'''1871'''<nowiki>:&nbsp; There is a wave of French emigrants, largely to North America.</nowiki>  

For emigrants leaving France, documents that record their migration can sometimes be found in France and in the country to which they moved.