Swiss migration to France

Swiss migration to France has resulted in France being home to one of the largest Swiss-born populations outside Switzerland. Migration from the Switzerland to France has increased rapidly from the 1980s onward and by 2013 there were an estimated 194,500^[2] Swiss citizens living in France.^[3] Besides Paris, the Swiss living in France have formed communities primarily in Southern France, Brittany, and Corsica.

Swiss-born people in France

Total population
est. 200,730 (2017)[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Île-de-France, Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Brittany, Poitou-Charentes, Corsica, Centre-Val de Loire
Languages
German, French, Italian, Romansh
Religion
Swiss Reformed Church, Orthodox and Catholicism,
Related ethnic groups
Swiss

Notable people

Eugène Grasset	Jacques Necker	Gustave Roussy	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Jean-Luc Godard	Joseph Favre
Alain Delon	Élodie Frenck	Vincent Perez	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	Romain Grosjean	Quentin Mosimann
Manuel Valls	Jérémie Aliadière	Didier Motchane	Elizabeth Teissier	Barbet Schroeder	Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt

See also

• France–Switzerland relations
• German French
• Swiss diaspora
• Immigration to France