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Yes. Paris also occasionally known around here as the second most Portuguese city in the world.
https://tvi24.iol.pt/politica/dia-de...al-de-portugal
They went there in big numbers under Salazar dictatorship especially from Northern Portugal. We have an unfair semi stereotyped vision of them though. Like Seb mentioned the "Jean-Pierre arrête, arrête-toi. Tu vas tomber filho da puta!" screaming speech it's almost iconographic of our summers, specially in the little villages.
We called them in a somewhat derogatory way, Avec (s). It was after the great wave of emigration in the 1960s, that gave rise to the expression 'avec'. From all over our country, but especially in the north, hundreds of thousands of Portuguese went looking for jobs and a better life in France. Most of them were poorly educated people, and when they returned home on their summer vacations, they spoke a mixture of Portuguese and French that invited the people in here to make fun/jokes of them. Hence the 'avecs' are the ones who return to the village with the good cars, new customs, many stories to tell, and eager to show off they made it.
They are ok, most just good hardworking people. We tend at times to be ill mannered/rude and bitchy against our own people. There's no bigger enemy to a tuga than other tuga himself.
What's is more funnier is most of us have family there, I for example I have plenty of them in Paris and other cities.
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Me too, I have alot of relatives in France (my family is mostly from Lisbon/Santarem/Leiria triangle. My maternal grandparents emigrated to France in the early 1960's (62 or 63), as clandestines, they had to cross the borders on foot, between the bushes and forests, escaping from the authorities...in some aspects even worse than refugees from ME and Africa nowadays because there was no one to help them or rescue them.
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France is only 50% ''ethnic French'' if by French you mean the populations descending from ethnicities originary from modern borders of ''France''. Now it has around 20% non-European population as well.
The place is basically multicultural, there's no way to turn France ''French'' again.
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