French Brazilians

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## French Brazilians*Franco-brasileiro**Franco-Brésilien*

### Religions

Roman Catholicism

**French Brazilians** (French: *Franco-Brésilien*, Portuguese: *Franco-brasileiro* or *Galo-brasileiro*) refers to Brazilian citizens of full of partial French ancestry, or persons born in France who reside in Brazil. Between 1850 and 1965 around 100,000 French people immigrated to Brazil. The country received the second highest number of French emigrants from France to South America after Argentina (239,000). The estimation is that there are 2 million Brazilians of French ancestry.

## French immigration to Brazil

During 1819 to 1940, 40,383 French people emigrated to Brazil. The majority of them who settled in the country between 1884 and 1925 (8,008 from 1819 to 1883, 25,727 from 1884 to 1925, 6,648 from 1926 to 1940). Another source estimates that around 100,000 French people immigrated to Brazil between 1850 and 1965.

The French community in Brazil were 592 people in 1888 and 5,000 Frenchmen in 1915. It was estimated that 14,000 Frenchmen were living in Brazil in 1912, About 9% of the 149,400 Frenchmen were living in Latin America, the second largest community after Argentina (100,000).

As of 2014, it is estimated that 30,000 French people are living in Brazil, most of them in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. They form the largest community of French expatriates in Latin America.

## French colonies

* Piracicaba (São Paulo) - 1852)
* Guaraqueçaba (Paraná) - 1852)
* Ivaí (Paraná} - 1847)

## Education

Brazil has the following French international schools:

* Lycée Pasteur de São Paulo
* Lycée Molière de Rio de Janeiro
* Lycée Français François Mitterrand - Brasília

## Notable French Brazilians

* Alfred Agache, architect
* Vitor Belfort
* Virginie Boutaud
* Lúcio Costa
* Louis Adolphe le Doulcet
* Marie Durocher
* Marc Ferrez
* Hércules Florence
* Prince Gaston
* Magda Tagliaferro
* Aurélien Hérisson
* Éder Jofre
* Pardal Mallet
* Nelson Piquet
* Nelson Piquet Jr.
* Ivo Pitanguy
* Hermano da Silva Ramos
* Alberto Santos-Dumont
* Arkan Simaan
* Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy
* Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay
* Paulino Soares de Sousa, 1st Viscount of Uruguai
* Ricardo Boechat

## References

1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20140116131612/http://www.ambafrance-br.org/IMG/pdf/27-06-13-La\_France\_et\_le\_Bresil\_en\_chiffre\_2013.pdf. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
2. ↑ "Vivre à l'étranger". http://vivrealetranger.studyrama.com/article.php3?id\_article=216. "Ils ont été 100 000 à émigrer dans ce pays entre 1850 et 1965 et auraient entre 500 000 et 1 million de descendants."
3. ↑  *Possible paradises: Basque emigration to Latin America*. "The French colony in this country numbered 592 in 1888 and 5,000 in 1915 (page 226)."
4. ↑  *L'Amérique latine et l'Europe à l'heure de la mondialisation*. "p. 194. Brésil : 14 000 (9%)."
5. ↑ "France Diplomatie - Brésil". https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/services-aux-citoyens/preparer-son-expatriation/dossiers-pays-de-l-expatriation/bresil/. "La communauté française au Brésil est estimée à 30 000 personnes."
6. ↑ BASSANEZI, MARIA SILVA C. BEOZZO (org.). "Mapa das Colônias existentes na província de São Paulo em 1855". In: "São Paulo do Passado: Dados Demográficos – 1854". NEPO, UNICAMP, 1998