Tags: Ethnic Group.
Italian migration into what is today France has been going on in different migrating cycles for centuries beginning in prehistoric times right to the modern age. In addition Corsica passed from the Republic of Genoa to France in 1770 and the area around Nice and Savoy from the Kingdom of Sardinia to France in 1860. According to Robin Cohen about 5 million French nationals are of Italian origin if their parentage is retraced over three generations.
