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First, please don't say ethnic French as if France wasn't a multinational country with several native ethnic groups. These group of Catalans overlap a lot with Occitans on the northern slope of the Pyrenees but not so much with true ethnic French from Paris and above.
Second, there were no settlers from the actual France. What gave rise to Catalans was the mix of neolithic Iberian farmers with the incoming Indo-European invaders. The rest (Greeks, Romans, Goths, Moors, Franks, Occitans) barely had any impact in the Catalan gene pool.
And third, I didn't cherrypick anything. I posted the whole town council and gave the source: https://www.olot.cat/pag828/corporacio.htm. You can check it yourself.
Sadly the state-sponsored diversity started much earlier in Catalonia so what you saw here was a diverse group of Andalusians, Castilians, Extremadurans, Aragonese, Galicians, etc., especially if you didn't visit anything beyond the typical touristic spots. Imagine the rapefugee invasion of Germany but on a population of 3 millions. For a reason in this thread I stated " I only included the ones bearing two Catalan surnames".
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