French people
The French (French:Français) are a nation who are identified with the country of France. This connection may be legal, historical, or cultural.
Descending from diverse peoples of Celtic (Gauls) origin (except the French Basques, the Corsican people and the French Catalans), later mixing with Romance (Romans, mainly in the South-East of France), and Germanic origin, which is a minority per genetic evidence (Franks, mainly in the Northeast of France), whereas the ethnonym that referred to German-speaking Franks survived to be applied to modern French. France was still a patchwork of local customs and regional differences in the late 19th century. Most French people speak the French language as their mother tongue, but certain languages like Norman, Occitan, Auvergnat, Corsican, Basque, French Flemish, Franconian and Breton remain spoken in certain regions (see Language policy in France).