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French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde [a] (English: French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company.
This page lists citizens of India of French ethnic or national origin. For French people resident in India without Indian citizenship and born to French expatriate parents in India and settled back in France or in other nations, see Category:French expatriates in India .
Pages in category "French people of Indian descent" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Hindu grave in the columbarium of Père Lachaise. Indo-French people or Indians in France are residents from India in France, as well as people of Indian national origin. As of 2000, there were an estimated 65,000 Indians living in metropolitan France, in addition to 300,000 Indians in the French overseas departments and regions of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana.
Indian French (French: français Indien) is a dialect of French spoken by Indians from the former colonies of French India; [3] namely Pondicherry (Pondichéry), Mahé, Yanam (Yanaon), Karaikal (Karikal) in the union territory of Puducherry (Poudouchéry) and the Chandannagar (Chandernagor) subdivision in the state of West Bengal.
The French named the area Pays des Illinois (meaning "country of the Illinois [plural"), which came to be a common name in referring to the homeland of the Illinois. [ 24 ] [ failed verification ] The early French explorers, including Louis Jolliet , Jacques Marquette and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , produced accounts that ...
After a military confrontation in 1684, the Iroquois negotiated a peace treaty with French governor Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre, but it stated the Iroquois were free to attack the western Indians. [6] The French objected to the treaty and replaced La Barre with the Marquis de Denonville. He was less sympathetic to native relations and did not ...
Pages in category "French people of the French and Indian War" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.