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> People who lived there for generations. Yes and no, Paris was an economic powerhouse even back then and attracted a lot of workers from the nearby regions,
by realusername 2y ago
> People who lived there for generations.
Yes and no, Paris was an economic powerhouse even back then and attracted a lot of workers from the nearby regions,
- kergonath 2y agoThere was a large influx of Italians at the end of the 19th century, and then Portuguese and Spanish early in the 20th. Some of their descendants are typical Parisians, and they have been for 2 or 3 generations. But it took some time for them to graduate from foreigners to archetypes.