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*'''1871''' There is a wave of French emigrants, largely to '''North America'''. | *'''1871''' There is a wave of French emigrants, largely to '''North America'''. | ||
*French colonization, especially in the Americas, was prominent in the late 17th and 18th centuries. At the end of the 18th century, French emigration (1789–1815) was a massive movement of émigrés '''mostly to neighboring European countries''', as a result of the violence caused by the '''French Revolution'''. *Later emigration was often associated with '''economic conditions'''. From 1847 to 1857, almost 200,000 French people emigrated abroad. | |||
*From 1821 to 1920, around 121,000 '''Basques and Bearnese people from Basses-Pyrénées''' emigrated to America—more than 108,000 from 1835 to 1901. | |||
<ref name="diaspora">"French diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_diaspora, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref> | |||
<br><ref nane="list">"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#F, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref> | |||
*'''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 nane="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 nane="list/"> | |||
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*'''Corsicans from the French administered island of Corsica, emigration to Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States. | |||
*Between 1848 and 1939, 1 million people with French passports emigrated to other countries. In the Western Hemisphere, the main communities of French ancestry are found in the '''United States, Canada and Argentina'''. Sizeable groups are also found in '''Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Australia.'''<ref name="diaspora"'> | |||
=== French Colonial Records=== | === French Colonial Records=== | ||
It would be a massive undertaking to report the background of all the colonies France established. Countries with large percentages of French descendants are discussed in the balance of this article. However, French immigrated played a role in the following list of French colonies. | It would be a massive undertaking to report the background of all the colonies France established. Countries with large percentages of French descendants are discussed in the balance of this article. However, French immigrated played a role in the following list of French colonies. | ||