French Americans
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French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or Québécois heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties. T
The Statue of Liberty is a gift from the French people in memory of the American Declaration of Independence.
Members of the French community in Holyoke, Massachusetts taking English classes at a YMCA night school, 1902
Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935
Francophone flags of North America
French Canadians
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French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French colonists first arriving in France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast major
French Americans
…English Americans. This is partly due to the tendency of Franco-American groups to identify more closely with North American regional identities such as French Canadian, Acadian, Brayon, Louisiana French (Cajun, Creole) than as a coherent group, but also because emigration from France during the 19th century was low…
Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall by Frances Anne Hopkins
Habitants by Cornelius Krieghoff (1852)