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French fowk

The French (French: Français) are a naition that share a common French cultur an speak the French leid as a mither tongue. Historically, the French population are stryndit frae fowks o Celtic, Laitin an Germanic oreegin, an are the day a mixtur o several ethnic groups. Athin Fraunce, the French are defined bi citizenship, regairdless o ancestry or kintra o residence.[25]

French fowk
Français

Notable individuals, frae left tae richt:

Row 1:Joan o Airc • Jacques Cartier • René Descartes • Molière• Blaise Pascal• Louis XIV o Fraunce • Voltaire • Denis Diderot • Napoleon

Row 2:Victor Hugo • Alexandre Dumas, père • Évariste Galois• Louis Pasteur • Jules Verne • Gustave Eiffel• Pierre de Coubertin• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec • Marie Curie

Row 3:Marcel Proust • Charles de Gaulle • Josephine Baker • Jacques-Yves Cousteau • Albert Camus • Édith Piaf • François Mitterrand • Brigitte Bardot • Zinedine Zidane
Tot population
c. 110 million e
Regions wi signeeficant populations
 Fraunce 64,300,000[1]
 Unitit States (French ancestry)11,500,000a[2]
 Canadae10,421,365b
 Argentinae6,800,000[3]
 Belgium6,200,000[4]
[5]
 Brazil1,000,000[6]
 Chile700,000.[7]
 Italy250,000[8]
 Peru230,000.[9]
 Madagascar123,954c.[10]
 Australie117,521c[11][12]
 Germany104,085[13]
 Spain100,408[14]
  Swisserland95,000[15]
 Israel85,000[16]
 Mexico60,000[17]
 Portugal35,000[18]
 Luxembourg25,200[19]
 Mauritius24,000c
 Cambodie16,200b[20]
 Lebanon15,000[20]
 Sirie13,000[20]
 Ecuador11,000.[20]
 Hong Kong10,456[21][22]
 Monaco9,800.[23]
 Ireland9,749[24]
 Japan8,423
 Serbie5,000
Leids
French
Releegion
Majority : Nan-releegious (Atheism, Agnosticism an Deism), Roman Catholicism. Minority : Islam, Judaism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Neo-paganism, Hinduism, ithers.
Relatit ethnic groups
Ither Laitin pfowks: Spaingies, Portuguese, Italians


Various Germanic fowks (due tae Frankish auncestry) : Germans, Dutch, English


Various Celtic fowks (due tae Gallo-Roman ancestry) : Erse, Bretons, Welsh, Cornish
a includin 2,080,000 o French Canadian ancestry

b Including bodies o pairtial French ancestry
c Including ancestry an birth
d French born fowk wur residin in the durin the 2001 Census

e Includin those wi French ancestry

Housomeivver, the wird can refer tae fowk o French strynd who are foond in ither countries an aw, wi significant French-speakin population groups or no, sic as Argentinae (French Argentines), Brazil (French Brazilians), French Wast Indies (the French Caribbean fowk), Canadae (French Canadians) an the Unitit States (French Americans), an some o thaim hae a French cultural identity.

Notes

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  1. ↑ (in French) Bilan démographique 2008 Archived 2009-06-02 at the Wayback Machine - INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques - French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies)
  2. ↑ "B04003. Total Ancestry Reported". 2008 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. United States Census Bureau. Archived frae the original on 11 Februar 2020. Retrieved 10 Julie 2010.
  3. ↑ "Les merveilleux francophiles argentins-1". Canalacademie.com. Archived frae the original on 5 Juin 2009. Retrieved 18 Januar 2009.
  4. ↑ "SPF Intérieur - Office des Étrangers" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 7 Februar 2009. Retrieved 7 Februar 2009.
  5. ↑ "Vivre à l'étranger".
  6. ↑ "Vivre à l'étranger". Ils ont été 100 000 à émigrer dans ce pays entre 1850 et 1965 et auraient entre 500 000 et 1 million de descendants.
  7. ↑ "La influencia francesa en la vida social de Chile de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 6 Februar 2004. Retrieved 10 Februar 2013. Los datos que poseía el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Francia en Chile al año 2008, tal como lo consignaba el Ministerio Plenipotenciario Francés en Chile, a un número cercano a los 700.000 descendientes de franceses en Chile..
  8. ↑ "French Ethnic People in all Countries". Joshua Project. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  9. ↑ Erwin Dopf. "Inmigración francesa al Perú". Espejodelperu.com.pe. Retrieved 6 Juin 2012.
  10. ↑ Kevin Shillington, Encyclopedia of African History, CRC Press, 2005, pp. 878-883
  11. ↑ "20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia". 2006 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived frae the original (Microsoft Excel download) on 10 Mairch 2008. Retrieved 19 Mey 2008.
  12. ↑ "20680-Country of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex - Australia". 2006 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived frae the original (Microsoft Excel download) on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 27 Mey 2008.
  13. ↑ "Federal Statistical Office Germany". Genesis.destatis.de. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  14. ↑ "Población por nacionalidad y país de nacimiento. 2007. INE". Ine.es. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  15. ↑ "Etat et structure de la population – Données détaillées, Population résidante selon le sexe et la nationalité par pays, (su-f-01.01.01.03), Office fédéral de la statistique OFS". Bfs.admin.ch. 29 Januar 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  16. ↑ "Jew, French Speaking Ethnic People in all Countries". Joshua Project. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  17. ↑ "Les Barcelonnettes au Mexique". Archived frae the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 10 Februar 2013. On estime à 60 000 les descendants des Barcelonnettes, dispersés sur tout le territoire mexicain.
  18. ↑ (in Portuguese) Imigração e Racismo: dez anos nos media
  19. ↑ "État de la population (x1000) 1981, 1991, 2001–2007". Statistiques.public.lu. Archived frae the original on 8 Juin 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  20. ↑ a b c d "Afghani, Tajik of Afghanistan Ethnic People Profile". Joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  21. ↑ Bettina Wassener (February 27, 2012). French Expatriates Flocking to Hong Kong. New York Times, Global Business. Retrieved on: 2013-01-03.
  22. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 10 Februar 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. ↑ "General Population Census 2008: Population Recensee et Population Estimee" (PDF) (in French). Government of the Principality of Monaco. 2008. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 14 Juin 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  24. ↑ "CSO Emigration" (PDF). Census Office Ireland. Retrieved 29 Januar 2013.
  25. ↑ "Fraunce shall be an indiveesible, secular, democratic an social Republic. It shall ensure the equality o aw citizens afore the law, wioot distinction o origin, race or releegion", Constitution of 4 October 1958 Archived 2013-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
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