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{{Infobox ethnic group| 
| image            = Père-Lachaise - Division 41 - Coronio 01.jpg
| image_caption    = Family tomb of George Coronio of [[Syros]], [[Pere-Lachaise Cemetery]]
| group            = Greeks in France
| population       = 35,000<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/grece/presentation-de-la-grece/|title=Présentation de la Grèce}}</ref> – 50.000 (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slate.fr/story/104093/grecs-pas-nombreux-emigrer-france |title=La France attire beaucoup moins les Grecs que l'Allemagne |language=fr |website=slate.fr |date=9 July 2015 }}</ref>
| popplace         = [[Paris]], [[Grenoble]], [[Marseille]], [[Corsica]] and [[southern France]]
| langs            = [[French language|French]], [[Greek language|Greek]]
| rels             = [[Greek Orthodoxy]], [[Catholic Church in France|Catholicism]], [[Atheism]],  [[Judaism]]
}}
{{Greeks}}
{{See also|Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul}}

The '''Greek community in [[France]]''' numbers around between 35,000–50,000 people (in 2015). They are located all around the country but the main communities are located in [[Paris]], [[Marseille]] and [[Grenoble]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/grece/presentation-de-la-grece/|title=Présentation de la Grèce}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
{{historical populations| align = none
| title = Greek citizens in France
| source = Quid<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [[Quid (encyclopedia)|Quid]] [http://www.quid.fr/2007/Geographie_Humaine_France/Donnees_Globales/1 Géographie humaine (France) - Étrangers en France] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709052823/http://www.quid.fr/2007/Geographie_Humaine_France/Donnees_Globales/1 |date=2007-07-09 }}</ref><ref>{{in lang|fr}} [[Quid (encyclopedia)|Quid 2003]], p. 624</ref>
|cols=3|percentages=pagr
|1901|2,902
|1946|16,184
|1968|9,000
|1975|9,580
|1980|9,516
|1990|6,091
|1998|6,443
|2003|4,959
|2004|3,801
|2009|
|2015|29,000
|2014|35,000
|2015|50,000
|2022|50,000
}}

== The Greeks of Marseille ==
{{further information|Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul}}
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Marseille, known as Massalia in Greek, was founded by Greeks from Ionia in 600 BC. The Massaliot Greeks are believed to have introduced [[viticulture]] to France. Notable ancient Greeks from Massalia included the great explorer and scientist [[Pytheas]].

Historically the Greek community was composed of merchants, ship-owners, intellectuals and international traders. They participated in the city’s political life or became patrons of its cultural life and the philanthropic activity of some of them was crowned by the [[Legion of Honour|Légion d’Honneur]].

== The Greeks of Corsica ==
{{Main article|Cargèse#History}}
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Corsican Maniots are descendants of [[Maniots]], who migrated to Corsica during the 400 year [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule over most of [[Greece]]. To this day the [[Cargèse]] region of Corsica is referred to as ''Cargèse la Grecque'' (Cargèse, the Greek). The origins of the Greek Maniots community in [[Corsica]] dates back to the end of the 17th century, when [[Greece]] was then under [[Ottoman Turk]] rule and there was a flow of Greek refugees from the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The Maniot Greeks were settled on the island and given lands for farming and animal grazing by the then ruling power, Genoa, as part of a Genoese policy to limit the spread and impact of an emergent Corsican nationalism violently opposed to foreign rule. The Maniots founded their four new villages in Paomia with their own church and culture. As a consequence, the pro-Genoese Greeks in Corsica became the targets of sustained attacks by Corsican nationalists and resentful farmers, and so had to be re-settled several times before finally being given territory around Cargese. Attempts at integrating Greeks into Corsican society involved the establishment of a mixed Greek-Corsican gendermerie. Many Corsican Greeks subsequently left the island for French-ruled Algeria, in a wave of south European settlement of the North African colony sponsored by the French government, but returned to Corsica and elsewhere in France following Algerian independence. They have now become fully assimilated into Corsican and French society, through both intermarriage and education. In general this has resulted in Corsican Greeks losing their separate ethnic-religious identity and knowledge of the Greek language, with even older Cargese inhabitants of Greek ancestry having little if any ability to read or speak Greek, while some inhabitants still possess Corsicanized Greek names (like Garidacci etc.) and attend services in the Greek-Catholic church of Cargèse.

==Notable people==
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| image1 =Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne - Portrait d'André Chénier - Suvée - Joconde04400001220.jpg|caption1 = [[André Chénier]]
| image2 =Adolphe Thiers Nadar 2.JPG|caption2 = [[Adolphe Thiers]]
| image3 =Agnès Varda at Guadalajara Film Festival.jpg|caption3 = [[Agnès Varda]]
| image4 =Costa-Gavras - Vence.JPG|caption4 = [[Costa Gavras]]
| image5 =Nikos Aliagas NRJ Music Awards 2012.jpg|caption5 = [[Nikos Aliagas]]
}}
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*[[Vincent, Count Benedetti]]<ref name="Crankshaw 2011">{{cite book |title=Bismarck |last= Crankshaw|first= Edward |year= 2011|publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9781448204878 |quote= Napoleon's ambassador to Prussia, a rather solemn and self-important little Corsican of Greek origin, comte Vincente Benedetti.  |page=1710 }}</ref>
*[[Vassilis Alexakis]]
*[[Nikos Aliagas]]
*[[Constantine Andreou]]
*[[Anna Mouglalis]]
*[[Eugène Michel Antoniadi]]
*[[Roger Apéry]]
*[[Antonin Artaud]]
*[[Helene Ahrweiler]]
*[[Kostas Axelos]]
*[[Charles Denis Bourbaki]]
*[[Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi]]
*[[Jean-Christophe Cambadélis]]
*[[Cornelius Castoriadis]]
*[[André Chénier]]
*[[Joseph Chénier]]
*[[Iris Clert]]
*[[Georges Corraface]]
*[[Jacques Damala]]
*[[Diam's]]
*[[Dimitri from Paris]]
*[[Adèle Exarchopoulos]]
*[[Jean Focas]]
*[[Costa Gavras]]
*[[Romain Gavras]]
*[[Pierre Gripari]]
*[[John Iliopoulos]]
*[[Laure Junot, duchess d'Abrantès]]
*[[Taïg Khris]]
*[[Apo Lazaridès]]
*[[Clément Lépidis]]
*[[Georges Moustaki]]
*[[Savitri Devi|Savitri Devi Mukherji]]
*[[Anna de Noailles]]
*[[Gabriella Papadakis]]
*[[Georges Panayotis]]
*[[Nicos Poulantzas]]
*[[Gisèle Prassinos]]
*[[Mario Prassinos]]
*[[Nicolas Rossolimo]]
*[[Nicolas Sarkozy]]
*[[Joseph Sifakis]]
*[[Demetrio Stefanopoli]]
*[[Patrick Tatopoulos]]
*[[Tériade]]
*[[Agnès Varda]]
*[[Antonis Volanis]]
*[[Antonis Rikka]]
*[[Alexandre Desplat]]
*[[Nekfeu|Ken Samaras]]
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==See also==
{{Portal|Greece|France}}
* [[Greek people]]
* [[Greek diaspora]]
* [[:Category:French people of Greek descent|French people of Greek descent]]
* [[France–Greece relations]]
* [[Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul]]
* [[Greek Orthodox Metropolis of France]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*Gérard Blanken, ''Les Grecs de Cargèse (Corse). Recherches sur leur langue et leur histoire.T. I. Partie linguistique'', Leyde, 1951 ([http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rebyz_0766-5598_1952_num_10_1_1066_t1_0258_0000_3 recension] in ''Revue des études byzantines'')
*Marie-Anne Comnène, ''Cargèse: une colonie grecque en Corse'', Société d'édition "Les Belles lettres", 1959, 92 pages
* Mathieu Grenet, ''La fabrique communautaire. Les Grecs à Venise, Livourne et Marseille, 1770-1840'', Athens and Rome, École française d'Athènes and École française de Rome, 2016 ({{ISBN|978-2-7283-1210-8}})
*Jean Coppolani, « Cargèse. Essai sur la géographie humaine d'un village corse », ''Revue de géographie alpine'', Année 1949, Volume 37, n° 37-1, pp.&nbsp;71–108
*Nicolaos Stephanopoli de Comnène, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=1bo9t8qrEeIC Histoire de la colonie grecque établie en Corse]'', Éditeur A. Thoisnier-Desplaces, 1826 (full scanned version on line)

==External links==
* [http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Geographic+Regions/Europe/Relationships+with+EU+Member+States/France/  Bilateral relations between Greece and France]
* [http://www.diaspora-grecque.com/  A web page of the community]
* [http://barthes.ens.fr/clio/revues/AHI/articles/english/pari.html Essay about the Greeks of Marseille]
* [http://www.info-grece.com/  Information on Greece and Greeks around the world in French]

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