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France. French Foreign Legion (Légion Étrangère) – The Legion is a corps of the French Army. Formed in 1831, it is designed to foreigners willing to serve in the French Armed Forces. Legionnaires come from around the world and applicants must be aged between 17.5 and 39.5. [15]
Hindu grave in the columbarium of Père Lachaise. Indo-French people or Indians in France are residents from India in France, as well as people of Indian national origin. As of 2000, there were an estimated 65,000 Indians living in metropolitan France, in addition to 300,000 Indians in the French overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Réunion, Martinique and French Guiana.
The French civil service (French: Fonction publique française) is the set of civil servants (fonctionnaires) working for the Government of France.. Not all employees of the state and public institutions or corporations are civil servants; however, the media often incorrectly equate "government employee" or "employee of a public corporation" with fonctionnaire.
Indian emigrants to France (13 P) F. French politicians of Indian descent (2 P) G. French people of Goan descent (1 P) M. Martiniquais people of Indian descent (2 P) P.
Benjamin Stora, Ils venaient d'Algérie: L'immigration algérienne en France (1912–1992), Paris, Fayard, 1992. Vincent Viet, La France immigrée. Construction d'une politique (1914–1997), Paris, Fayard, 1998. Patrick Weil, La France et ses étrangers : L'aventure d'une politique de l'immigration de 1938 à nos jours, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
Hindu immigration to France was catalyzed by Indian Independence in 1947. In 1971, Hindu Bengalis began migrating to France. By 1975, nearly 60,000 Indians, 40% of which were Hindu, had migrated from Pondicherry to France. Mauritians also began migrating to France for work and education after gaining independence. There are now approximately ...
Over 100,000 Tamils [2] [3] from both Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry now and then from Sri Lanka also lives in France. This is in addition to the Indian Tamil community established in French overseas dominions of Réunion , Martinique , and French Guiana .
This page lists citizens of India of French ethnic or national origin. For French people resident in India without Indian citizenship and born to French expatriate parents in India and settled back in France or in other nations, see Category:French expatriates in India .