Poles in France form one of the largest Polish diaspora communities in Europe. Between 500,000 and one million people of Polish descent live in France, concentrated in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, in the metropolitan area of Lille, the coal-mining basin around Lens and Valenciennes and in the Ile-de-France.
Stanisław Leszczyński's Palace in Wissembourg
Hôtel Lambert was a center of Polish exiles associated with Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
The Polish Library in Paris, founded in 1838, was added in 2003 to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption is the main Polish church of Paris.
The Île-de-France is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centred on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called the Paris Region. Île-de-France is densely populated and retains a prime economic position on the national stage, but it covers only 12,012 square kilometres, about 2% of metropolitan French territory. Its 2017 population was nearly one-fifth of the national total.
Image: Eiffel Tower from the Tour Montparnasse 3, Paris May 2014
Image: 0 Provins Collégiale Saint Quiriace (7)
Image: Regio 2N Viaduc St Mammes
Image: Versailles Chateau Jardins 02 (cropped)
