Greeks in France
Greek Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Atheism |
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.[3]
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The Greeks of Marseille
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 Légion d’Honneur.
The Greeks of Corsica
Corsican Maniots are descendants of
Notable people
- Vincent, Count Benedetti[6]
- 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 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
See also
- Greek people
- Greek diaspora
- French people of Greek descent
- France–Greece relations
- Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul
References
- ^ "Présentation de la Grèce".
- ^ "La France attire beaucoup moins les Grecs que l'Allemagne". slate.fr (in French). 9 July 2015.
- ^ "Présentation de la Grèce".
- ^ (in French) Quid Géographie humaine (France) - Étrangers en France Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in French) Quid 2003, p. 624
- ISBN 9781448204878.
Napoleon's ambassador to Prussia, a rather solemn and self-important little Corsican of Greek origin, comte Vincente Benedetti.
Bibliography
- Gérard Blanken, Les Grecs de Cargèse (Corse). Recherches sur leur langue et leur histoire.T. I. Partie linguistique, Leyde, 1951 (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. 71–108
- Nicolaos Stephanopoli de Comnène, Histoire de la colonie grecque établie en Corse, Éditeur A. Thoisnier-Desplaces, 1826 (full scanned version on line)