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Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of France from 1660 until 1683; Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, dauphine of France; Caroline Garcia, tennis player; Maria Malibran, mezza-soprano; Olivier Martinez, actor; Jean-Luc Mélenchon, politician; Eugénie de Montijo, the last Empress of France from 1853 until 1870; La Belle Otero, actress and dancer
Édouard Balladur – former Prime Minister of France, born in Izmir, Turkey; Mansour Bahrami – tennis player, born in Arak, Iran; Constantin Brâncuși – sculptor, painter, and photographer, born in Hobița, Romania; Carla Bruni – model, singer, former first lady of France, born in Turin, Italy
In general, Italian immigrants were able to learn French without major difficulties, given the linguistic proximity of the two Latin languages. At the time of the great Italian migratory waves, France had a rather rigid assimilation policy, which forced most of the immigrants and their descendants to abandon their mother tongue in favor of French.
As of 2008, the French national institute of statistics INSEE estimated that 5.3 million foreign-born immigrants and 6.5 million direct descendants of immigrants (born in France with at least one immigrant parent) lived in France representing a total of 11.8 million and 19% of the total population in metropolitan France (62.1
Robert Whitaker McAll (1821–1893), Scottish founder of the Popular Evangelical Mission of France, for the Parisian working class and which is still currently in existence. [ 320 ] Pierre Stouppe (1690–1760), Huguenot pastor then low church/evangelical Anglican minister, missionary to African-American slaves.
Americans in France consists of immigrants and expatriates from the United States as well as French people of American ancestry. Immigration to France from the United States dates back to the 19th century and according to the American embassy in Paris, as of 2015, there are about 100,000 American citizens residing in France.
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From 1880 to 1930, 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 Gers and Dordogne. [48] Most of French immigrants settled in the country between 1875 and 1895.