French people are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.
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27 Facts About French people
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France has long been a patchwork of local customs and regional differences, and while most French people still speak the French language as their mother tongue, languages like Picard, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Franco-Provencal, Occitan, Catalan, Auvergnat, Corsican, Basque, French Flemish, Lorraine Franconian, Alsatian, Norman, and Breton remain spoken in their respective regions.
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Application for French people citizenship is often interpreted as a renunciation of previous state allegiance unless a dual citizenship agreement exists between the two countries.
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The Alamans, another Germanic French people immigrated to Alsace, hence the Alemannic German now spoken there.
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The other major Germanic French people to arrive in France, after the Burgundians and the Visigoths, were the Norsemen or Northmen.
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However, significant emigration of mainly Roman Catholic French people populations led to the settlement of the Province of Acadia, Canada and Louisiana, all (at the time) French people possessions, as well as colonies in the West Indies, Mascarene islands and Africa.
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In 1805, when the French people were forced out of Saint-Domingue, 35, 000 French people settlers were given lands in Cuba.
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Abroad, the French people language is spoken in many different countries – in particular the former French people colonies.
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Thus the historian John F Drinkwater states, "The French are, paradoxically, strongly conscious of belonging to a single nation, but they hardly constitute a unified ethnic group by any scientific gauge.
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Some categories of French people have been excluded, throughout the years, from full citizenship:.
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French people citizenship has been defined for a long time by three factors: integration, individual adherence, and the primacy of the soil.
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French people is a citizen, before being a member of a community or of a social class.
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Renan's non-essentialist definition, which forms the basis of the French people Republic, is diametrically opposed to the German ethnic conception of a nation, first formulated by Fichte.
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However, this universal ideal, rooted in the 1789 French Revolution, suffered from the racism that impregnated colonialism.
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French people went as far as advocating racial segregation there.
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Thus, it gave French people nationality to the child of a foreigner, if both are born in France, except if the year following his coming of age he reclaims a foreign nationality.
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Therefore, modern French people nationality law combines four factors: paternality or 'right of blood', birth origin, residency and the will expressed by a foreigner, or a person born in France to foreign parents, to become French people.
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These French people Canadians arrived to work in the timber mills and textile plants that appeared throughout the region as it industrialized.
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French people Argentines had a considerable influence over the country, particularly on its architectural styles and literary traditions, as well as on the scientific field.
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Some notable Argentines of French people descent include writer Julio Cortazar, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Bernardo Houssay or activist Alicia Moreau de Justo.
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French people migration to the United Kingdom is a phenomenon that has occurred at various points in history.
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The bulk of French people immigrants arrived in Mexico during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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French people came to Chile in the 18th century, arriving at Concepcion 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.
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Later in a Conservative government, annihilated nearly all the relations between France and Guatemala, and most of French people immigrants went to Costa Rica, but these relationships were again return to the late of the nineteenth century.
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Elsewhere in the Americas, French people settlement took place in the 16th to 20th centuries.
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