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 | |
![]() | |
![]() | 11,500,000a[2] |
![]() | 10,421,365b |
![]() | 6,800,000[3] |
![]() | 6,200,000[4] |
[5] | |
![]() | 1,000,000[6] |
![]() | 700,000.[7] |
![]() | 250,000[8] |
![]() | 230,000.[9] |
![]() | 123,954c.[10] |
![]() | 117,521c[11][12] |
![]() | 104,085[13] |
![]() | 100,408[14] |
![]() | 95,000[15] |
![]() | 85,000[16] |
![]() | 60,000[17] |
![]() | 35,000[18] |
![]() | 25,200[19] |
![]() | 24,000c |
![]() | 16,200b[20] |
![]() | 15,000[20] |
![]() | 13,000[20] |
![]() | 11,000.[20] |
![]() | 10,456[21][22] |
![]() | 9,800.[23] |
![]() | 9,749[24] |
![]() | 8,423 |
![]() | 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 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 |
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.