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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] Canadae 10,421,365b Argentinae 6,800,000[ 3] Belgium 6,200,000[ 4] [ 5] Brazil 1,000,000[ 6] Chile 700,000.[ 7] Italy 250,000[ 8] Peru 230,000.[ 9] Madagascar 123,954c .[ 10] Australie 117,521c [ 11] [ 12] Germany 104,085[ 13] Spain 100,408[ 14] Swisserland 95,000[ 15] Israel 85,000[ 16] Mexico 60,000[ 17] Portugal 35,000[ 18] Luxembourg 25,200[ 19] Mauritius 24,000c Cambodie 16,200b [ 20] Lebanon 15,000[ 20] Sirie 13,000[ 20] Ecuador 11,000.[ 20] Hong Kong 10,456[ 21] [ 22] Monaco 9,800.[ 23] Ireland 9,749[ 24] Japan 8,423 Serbie 5,000 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
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]
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.
↑ (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)
↑ "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 .
↑ "Les merveilleux francophiles argentins-1" . Canalacademie.com. Archived frae the original on 5 Juin 2009. Retrieved 18 Januar 2009 .
↑ "SPF Intérieur - Office des Étrangers" (PDF) . Archived frae the original (PDF) on 7 Februar 2009. Retrieved 7 Februar 2009 .
↑ "Vivre à l'étranger" .
↑ "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.
↑ "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..
↑ "French Ethnic People in all Countries" . Joshua Project. Retrieved 12 November 2011 .
↑ Erwin Dopf. "Inmigración francesa al Perú" . Espejodelperu.com.pe. Retrieved 6 Juin 2012 .
↑ Kevin Shillington, Encyclopedia of African History, CRC Press, 2005, pp. 878-883
↑ "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 .
↑ "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 .
↑ "Federal Statistical Office Germany" . Genesis.destatis.de. Retrieved 12 November 2011 .
↑ "Población por nacionalidad y país de nacimiento. 2007. INE" . Ine.es. Retrieved 12 November 2011 .
↑ "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 .
↑ "Jew, French Speaking Ethnic People in all Countries" . Joshua Project. Retrieved 12 November 2011 .
↑ "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.
↑ (in Portuguese) Imigração e Racismo: dez anos nos media
↑ "État de la population (x1000) 1981, 1991, 2001–2007" . Statistiques.public.lu. Archived frae the original on 8 Juin 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2011 .
↑ a b c d "Afghani, Tajik of Afghanistan Ethnic People Profile" . Joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 12 November 2011 .
↑ Bettina Wassener (February 27, 2012). French Expatriates Flocking to Hong Kong . New York Times , Global Business. Retrieved on: 2013-01-03.
↑ "Archived copy" . Archived frae the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 10 Februar 2013 .CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )
↑ "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 .
↑ "CSO Emigration" (PDF) . Census Office Ireland. Retrieved 29 Januar 2013 .
↑ "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