Romani people in France
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Romani people in France, generally known in spoken French as gitans, tsiganes or manouches, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group in France.
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Painting of a Romani female by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, c. 1870-1872
Painting of a Romani woman at a fountain in France, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, c. 1865-1870
Painting of two Romani girls in France by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1902
Sinti
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The Sinti are a subgroup of the Romani people. They are found mostly in Germany, France, Italy and Central Europe, numbering some 200,000 people. They were traditionally itinerant, but today only a sm
Romani people in France
…In France the Romani people are typically classified into three groups: "Manouches", also known as "Sinté" (in Germany and Holland: Sinti), who often have familial ties in Germany and Italy, who form the majority of Romani groups "Gitans", who trace their familial ties to Romani people…
Sinti people in Rhine Province, Germany, 1935
Memorial in Nuremberg opposite Frauentorgraben 49, where on 15 September 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in the ballroom of the Industrial & Cultural Association clubhouse
Deportation of Sinti and Roma in Asperg, 22 May 1940
Memorial for murdered Sinti in Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld