French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties. They include French-Canadian Americans, whose experience and identity differ from the broader community.
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
The Franco-American flag being flown alongside the flags of numerous other francophone communities
The French people are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.
Louis XIV of France "The Sun-King"
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix
A rally in Paris in support of the victims of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting
French people in Paris, August 1944