French fowk

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]

French fowk
Français

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
Fraunce 64,300,000[1]
Unitit States (French ancestry)	11,500,000a[2]
Canadae	10,421,365b
Argentinae	6,800,000[3]
Belgium	6,200,000[4]
[5]
Brazil	1,000,000[6]
Chile	700,000.[7]
Italy	250,000[8]
Peru	230,000.[9]
Madagascar	123,954c.[10]
Australie	117,521c[11][12]
Germany	104,085[13]
Spain	100,408[14]
Swisserland	95,000[15]
Israel	85,000[16]
Mexico	60,000[17]
Portugal	35,000[18]
Luxembourg	25,200[19]
Mauritius	24,000c
Cambodie	16,200b[20]
Lebanon	15,000[20]
Sirie	13,000[20]
Ecuador	11,000.[20]
Hong Kong	10,456[21][22]
Monaco	9,800.[23]
Ireland	9,749[24]
Japan	8,423
Serbie	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 Germanic fowks (due tae Frankish auncestry) : Germans, Dutch, English 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 c Including ancestry an birth d French born fowk wur residin in the durin the 2001 Census e Includin those wi French ancestry

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.