Italians in France

Italian French
Italo-francesi (Italian)
Italo-français (French)
Napoleon Bonaparte, the most notable Italian French personality[1]
Total population
c. 5,500,000 (by ancestry, about 8% of the total French population)[2][3][4][5][6]
c. 464,438 (by birth)[7][8][9]
Regions with significant populations
Paris, Lyon, Lille, Strasbourg, Lorraine, Southeastern France (Provence, Savoy, Corsica and Nice have autochthonous Italian populations), Southwestern France
Languages
French and French dialects · Italian and Italian dialects
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Italians, Italian Belgians, Italian Britons, Italian Finns, Italian Germans, Italian Romanians, Italian Spaniards, Italian Swedes, Italian Swiss, Corfiot Italians, Genoese in Gibraltar, Italians of Crimea, Italians of Odesa, Italian Canadians

Italian French (Italian: italo-francesi; French: italo-français) are French-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to France during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in France.

Italian migration into what is today France has been going on, in different migrating cycles, for centuries, beginning in prehistoric times right to the modern age.[10][11] In addition, Corsica passed from the Republic of Genoa to France in 1768, and the county of Nice and Savoy from the Kingdom of Sardinia to France in 1860.

About 5.5 million French nationals are of Italian origin, corresponding to about 8% of the total population.[2][3][4][5][6] According to data for 2021, the number of Italian citizens residing in France was 444,113.[12]

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  2. ^ a b Documento "Italiens" del CIRCE dell'Università Sorbona - Parigi 3
  3. ^ a b "Italiani nel Mondo: diaspora italiana in cifre" [Italians in the World: Italian diaspora in figures] (PDF) (in Italian). Migranti Torino. 30 April 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Rapporto Italiano Nel Mondo 2019 : Diaspora italiana in cifre" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Italiani Nel Mondo : Diaspora italiana in cifre" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  6. ^ a b Cohen, Robin (1995). Cambridge Survey. Cambridge University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-521-44405-7. Retrieved 11 May 2009. 5 million italians in france.
  7. ^ "Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo 2023" (PDF). migrantes.it. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo 2016". www.banchedati.chiesacattolica.it. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. ^ Polchi, Vladimiro (December 2010). "Gli italiani continuano a emigrare un milione in fuga negli ultimi 4 anni". www.repubblica.it. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  10. ^ Cohen, Robin (1995). The Cambridge Survey of World Migration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-521-44405-7.
  11. ^ (in French) Histoire de l'Italie à Paris. Italieaparis.net. Retrieved on 2011-07-04.
  12. ^ "Rapporto Italiano Nel Mondo 2021 : Diaspora italiana in cifre" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2021.