Poles in France

Between 500,000 and one million people of Polish descent live in France,[2] concentrated in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, in the metropolitan area of Lille, the historic coal-mining basin (Bassin Minier) around Lens and Valenciennes and in the Ile-de-France.

Prominent members of the Polish community in France have included king Stanisław Leszczyński, Frédéric Chopin, Adam Mickiewicz, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Aleksander Chodźko, Marie Curie, Michel Poniatowski, Raymond Kopa, Ludovic Obraniak, Edward Gierek (who was raised there), Matt Pokora and singer Jean-Jacques Goldman and Rene Goscinny.

Numerous Polish farmers emigrated to the southwest of France in the 1920s, as the mass casualties of World War I left that region critically short of farm labor.

[7] During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a specific Polish Resistance group, Polska Organizacja Walki o Niepodleglosc – Organisation Polonaise de Lutte pour l’Indépendance (POWN), was created on September 6, 1941, by the Polish general consul in Paris, A. Kawalkowski (code name Justyn), and fought alongside the French Resistance.

Since 1941 PPS activists in Northern France had also founded two resistance movements, Organisation S and Orzel Bialy (White Eagle).

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 Potocki Palace in Paris was built in years 1878-1884
The grave of Cyprian Norwid , among other Polish burials in the Cimetière des Champeaux de Montmorency