page_title: Poles in France
section_title: Great Emigration (1831-1870)
hierarchical_section_title: Poles in France / History / Great Emigration (1831-1870)
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Церковь Успения Богородицы
context_page_description: Poles in France form one of the largest Polish diaspora communities in Europe. About one million people of Polish descent live in France, concentrated in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, in the metropolitan area of Lille, the coal-mining basin around Lens and Valenciennes and in the Ile-de-France.
  Prominent members of the Polish community in France have included Frédéric Chopin, Adam Mickiewicz, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Aleksander Chodźko, Marie Curie, Michel Poniatowski, Raymond Kopa, Ludovic Obraniak, Edward Gierek, Matt Pokora and singer Jean-Jacques Goldman and Rene Goscinny.
context_section_description: The so-called Great Emigration was the flood of exiles in the aftermath of the 1831 November Uprising, made up of political elites mainly from the Russian Partition of Poland between 1831–1870 who settled in France.
caption: Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption is the main Polish church of Paris.
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