Countries with significant numbers of people with French ancestry include Canada and the United States, whose territories were partly colonized by France between the 17th and 19th centuries, as well as Argentina.

Sizeable groups are also found in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, South Africa, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Canal Academy (Institute of France) citing 2006 data[4] Encyclopedia of the Nations[28] [36][37] [38] everyculture.com[42] [44][45] In the Western Hemisphere, the main communities of French ancestry are found in Canada, the United States and Argentina.

Administrators expressed frustration with the influx of criminals and other "undesirables" from metropolitan France, which ran counter to what they saw as the French "civilising mission" to present "morally upright" role models for Africans to emulate.

Some Senegalese people of French descent had illnesses of meningoencephalitis, staphylococcal infection of the skin, and the like, worsened by their failure or inability to seek medical attention.

The first French settlers arrived in Mauritius (then Isle de France) in 1722, after the previous attempts of settlement by the Dutch had failed, and the island had once again become abandoned.

The French by now strongly identified with the island, and the terms of capitulation allowed the settlers to live on as a distinct francophone ethnic group for the next 158 years under British rule before Mauritius attained independence.

Following the independence of Latin American countries in the first decades of the 19th century, a great wave of French immigration towards the region appeared, mainly directed to the River Plate basin.

The Araucanía Region also has an important number of people of French ancestry, as the area hosted settlers arrived by the second half of the 19th century, as farmers and shopkeepers.

80% of them were coming from Southwestern France, especially from Basses-Pyrénées (Basque country and Béarn), Gironde, Charente-Inférieure and Charente and regions situated between Gers and Dordogne.

[50] This situation changed over the turn of the 19th century with French migrating mainly from South of France and Bordeaux[51] as a consequence of international trade increase across the Atlantic and the independence from the Spanish Empire.

Official relations between France and Costa Rica began in 1848 in a context of geopolitical stakes for the region as its importance increased as a cross way between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.

Costa Rica also started to export coffee, and several French emigrants got involved in this activity with The Tournon Company as the leading firm from this community.

The 19th-century French emigrants and their descendants, as well as France relevant international role had a lasting influence in Costa Rican society in the cultural, artistic and political fields.

[52] The first French immigrants were politicians such as Nicolas Raoul and Isidore Saget, Henri Terralonge and officers Aluard, Courbal, Duplessis, Gibourdel and Goudot.

Later in a Conservative government, annihilated nearly all the relations between France and Guatemala, and most of French immigrants went to Costa Rica, but these relationships were again return to the late of the nineteenth century.

Nowadays, about 300,000 Uruguayans have French ancestry,[10] i.e. almost 9% of the total population of the country, while they made up a third of it at the end of the 19th century,[55] as a result of a significant immigration from France (quantitywise and percentagewise) between the 1840s and the 1890s.

[56] Although declining by the turn of the 20th century, French immigration left a strong cultural and ideological mark in Uruguay,[57] and the country, long considered the most Francophile in Latin America,[58] has been an observing member of the Francophonie since 2012.

[65] According to various estimates, there were between 14,000,[66] 18,000[67] or 25,000 Frenchmen[68] living in the country in the early 1840s, representing a significant part of the total population (7 to 12.5%), especially in the capital where they made up a third of the inhabitants.

As the proportion of French immigrants within the total population decreased, the rate of marriages outside the community increased and became the norm in the 1900s,[85] leading to a quicker cultural assimilation than for other ethnic groups.

By then, the population, that had doubled since 1900[87] (but had its foreign component divided by almost two),[88][89] had acquired its present aspect, with a strong Spanish and Italian mark in the ethnic composition, and a significant French influence.

A majority of them however permanently settled in Uruguay, where they left a lasting influence and established strong cultural and economical ties between both countries, creating for instance the first French chamber of commerce abroad[94] and the oldest Lycée français in the Americas.

French presence in Northern America dates back to the 16th century, when France established a colonial empire that eventually became absorbed within the United States and Canada (except for Saint Pierre and Miquelon).

[97] They are also found in large numbers in the province of New Brunswick where a third of the population can trace their roots back to France and in Ontario which is home to the second largest community of French Canadians in the country.

Within this period, it is estimated that around 1,250 French people immigrated to Canada, most of them coming from the provinces of Normandy, Aunis, Perche, Île-de-France, Poitou, Maine and Saintonge.

At the end of the 19th century, French Canadians started to settle in Northeastern and Eastern Ontario, creating the modern-day Franco-Ontarian communities, and in the Prairies.

[102] Two Polish cities owed their flourishing in the 19th century to French immigrants, i.e. Sopot to doctor Jean Georg Haffner, who established its first spa, and Żyrardów to inventor and engineer Philippe de Girard, who co-founded its textile industry.

[103] According to the 1921 Polish census, main concentrations of French people included Warsaw (686), Łódź (111), Częstochowa (92), Dąbrowa Górnicza (85) and Lwów (80).