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Between 1850 and 1965 around 100,000 French people immigrated to Brazil.[2] The country received the second largest number of French immigrants to South America after Argentina (239,000). It is estimated that there are around 1 million Brazilians of French descent today. French colonies: Piracicaba (São Paulo - 1852); Guaraqueçaba (Paraná - 1852); Ivaí (Paraná - 1847).<ref>"French Brazilians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Brazilians, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref> | Between 1850 and 1965 around 100,000 French people immigrated to Brazil.[2] The country received the second largest number of French immigrants to South America after Argentina (239,000). It is estimated that there are around 1 million Brazilians of French descent today. French colonies: Piracicaba (São Paulo - 1852); Guaraqueçaba (Paraná - 1852); Ivaí (Paraná - 1847).<ref>"French Brazilians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Brazilians, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref> | ||
===Chile=== | |||
====Online Records==== | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/793324-redirection Grandes familias chilenas : descendientes de ingleses, franceses e italianos (Great Chilean families: descendants of English, French and Italians)], e-book. Biographies of prominent immigrants to Chile, and some of their descendants. | |||
*[[France Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Chileans<br> | |||
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====Chile Background==== | |||
*There are 800,000 descendants of the French in Chile today. | |||
*The French came to Chile in the 18th century, arriving at '''Concepción as merchants''', and in the mid-19th century to cultivate vines in the haciendas of the '''Central Valley, the homebase of world-famous Chilean wine'''. | |||
*The '''Araucanía Region''' also has an important number of people of French ancestry, as the area hosted settlers arrived by the second half of the 19th century as farmers and shopkeepers. | |||
*From 1840 to 1940, around 25,000 Frenchmen immigrated to Chile. 80% of them were coming from ''''Southwestern France, especially from Basses-Pyrénées (Basque country and Béarn), Gironde, Charente-Inférieure and Charente and regions situated between Duran, Gers, and Dordogne.''' | |||
*Most of French immigrants settled in the country between 1875 and 1895. Between October 1882 and December 1897, 8,413 Frenchmen settled in Chile, making up 23% of immigrants (second only after Spaniards) from this period. In 1863, 2,650 French citizens were registered in Chile. At the end of the century they were almost 30,000. <ref>"French Chilean", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Chilean, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref> | |||
===Cuba=== | ===Cuba=== | ||
====Cuba Background==== | ====Cuba Background==== | ||