French Argentines are Argentines of full or partial French descent, or French-born people who reside in Argentina. Most of French immigrants settled in Argentina from the 1870s until WW1, though consistent immigration started in the 1820s and continued until the late 1940s. Half of these immigrants came from Southwestern France, especially from the Basque Country and Béarn (former Basses-Pyrénées accounted for more than 20% of immigrants), as well as Bigorre and Rouergue, but also from Savoy and the Paris region. As early as in the 1840s, Argentina also received immigrants with French background from neighboring countries, notably Uruguay. In 2006, it was estimated that around 6 million Argentines had some degree of French ancestry (up to 17% of the total population).
Business
, CEO of Ledesma, with distant French ancestry through his maternal great-grandparents Alfredo Fortabat, founder of Loma Negra, born to French parents , landowner and entrepreneur, born to French father , French-born industrialist and inventor Federico Lacroze, businessman who created the first railway system in Argentina, born to French father María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, businesswoman and art collector, with distant French ancestry through her paternal great-grandfather , entrepreneur and philanthropist, daughter of Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, with remote French ancestry through both lines of her family Anacarsis Lanús, entrepreneur considered one of the wealthiest men in Argentina in the 1850s, born to French father Juan Carlos Lectoure, owner of Luna Park arena Guy Count Maingard, Noble French-born Businessman married to Delia Alvarez de Toledo , businessman who created the first hunting reserve in Argentina, born to French parents , French-born businessman
Education
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, lawyer and professor, with distant French ancestry through both lines of his family José Manuel Estrada, professor and thinker, with French ancestry through his maternal grandparents Amédée Jacques, French-born pedagogue and philosopher , economist and professor, with French ancestry through his paternal grandfather Ernesto Laclau, political theorist , engineer who founded the first Industrial School in Argentina , philosopher and professor , French-born jurist and professor , professor Jacques de Mahieu, French-born anthropologist and professor, Nazi collaborator in Vichy France who fled to Argentina through the ratlines , professor and dean of the Journalism Faculty of the National University of La Plata, Deputy of Buenos Aires Province since 2017 , professor of cinema and philosophy , lawyer and professor