{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox ethnic group |group = Mexicans in France <br/><small>''Mexicanos en Francia''</small><br/><small>''Mexicains en France''</small> |image = |caption = |population = 40,000 (2020)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/684165/Francia_mundo20.pdf|title=Mexicanos residentes en Francia 2020|website=Mexican Government|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213031211/https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/684165/Francia_mundo20.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MIG|title=International Migration Database|publisher=[[OECD]]|accessdate=October 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ime.gob.mx/es/resto-del-mundo |title=Resto del Mundo 2014 |accessdate=2016-03-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023513/http://www.ime.gob.mx/es/resto-del-mundo |archivedate=March 4, 2016 }} Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores.</ref> |regions = |languages = [[Mexican Spanish]], [[French language|French]] |religions = [[Roman Catholicism in France|Roman Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism in France|Protestantism]] |related = [[White Mexicans]], [[Indigenous peoples in Mexico|Amerindian Mexicans]], [[Mestizos in Mexico|mestizo Mexicans]] }}
'''Mexicans in France''' refers to [[Mexico|Mexicans]] and their French-born descendants. Paris is the main point of residence for Mexicans, but there are also considerable numbers in [[Strasbourg]] and [[Marseille]].
The House of Mexico in Paris is one of 37 residences in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) and was created by the governments of Mexico and France in 1953 to host young university students from Mexico and other [[Hispanic America]]n countries.<ref>[http://www.casademexico.org/?lang=es Casa de México en París.]</ref>
==History==
'''Porfirio Díaz in Europe'''
After resigning from the presidency of Mexico in 1911, [[Porfirio Díaz]] and his family began to pack up to retire into exile in Paris, France. After dismissing their former servants paying in gold coins, the Diaz family went to the train station of Santa Clara, south of the capital. Victoriano Huerta was asked to escort the caravan to Veracruz, where one would take steamboat to [[La Coruña]]. On May 26, Porfirio and Carmen Romero Rubio, accompanied by the children of General -except Amada- and sisters Carmen, went toward the port of [[Veracruz]]. Along the way on the morning of May 27, just before reaching the city of [[Orizaba]], the train was attacked by bandits, which were repelled by federal forces Huerta, and managed to capture more than half the assailants. Arriving in Veracruz the night of that day, and contrary to what happened in other parts of the country, Díaz was greeted with banquets, dinners, dances and parties in his honor. Finally on the morning of May 31, on board the ship German ''Ypiranga'' Porfirio Díaz and his family left the country.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/sabiasque/?contenido=19238&pagina=5 |title = ''"Exilio eterno: Porfirio Díaz"'' |accessdate = December 23, 2007 |author = Alejandro Rosas |publisher = [[Gobierno de México|Presidencia de la República]] |language = Spanish}}</ref>
Porfirio Díaz began touring Europe and its main capitals with his wife. In April 1912, he was received in the [[Zarzuela Palace]], Madrid by the King of Spain, [[Alfonso XIII]], who invited him to reside in the Iberian Peninsula and presented him with a sword as a gift. Later he toured [[San Sebastián]] and [[Zaragoza]]. The Kaiser [[Wilhelm II]] of Germany sent him in Zaragoza tickets to witness the maneuvers of his army in [[Munich]], where they arrived on the eve of the [[First World War]]. After fixing his residence in Paris, Diaz used to go to [[Biarritz]] and [[St. Jean de Luz]], on the French coast during the winter. In early 1913, began a tour of North Africa and their journey took them to meet in [[Cairo]], where he toured The Sphinx and the Pyramid of Cheops. In the latter, Díaz was portrayed in a photograph owned General National Archive. During his return to Europe, he visited [[Naples]] and Rome.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.elperiodicodemexico.com/nota.php?sec=Nacional-Politica&id=141012 |title = ''"Los restos de Porfirio Díaz"'' |accessdate = December 23, 2007 |language = Spanish}}</ref>
In Paris, Díaz began to be aware of the transgressions that had occurred in Mexico, thanks to several of his old friends used to go visit him. In late 1913, Porfirio was visited by his daughters Amada and Luz, who remained with their father a few months and together toured [[Switzerland]] and the Alps. During the last months of 1914 and early 1915, his health began to seriously deteriorate and later, in June 1915, her doctor ordered him to rest in his bed, so he had to leave their daily morning walks in the forest of Bologna. According to the stories of Carmen Romero Rubio, her husband suffered from hallucinations. On July 2, finally the word had lost track of time and his doctor was called at noon and six p.m. and thirty-two minutes (French time), José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori died at the age of eighty-four years. He was buried in the church of Saint Honoré l'Eylau, and December 27, 1921, his remains were moved to the [[Montparnasse Cemetery]] in Paris. When Carmen Romero Rubio returned to the country in 1931, she left Díaz's remains in France. Since the year of 1989, Mexico has expressed intentions to return to Mexico the remains of Díaz, without achieving results.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.elperiodicodemexico.com/nota.php?sec=Nacional-Politica&id=141012 |title = ''"Los restos de Porfirio Díaz"'' |accessdate = December 23, 2007 |language = Spanish}}</ref>
==Statistics== {| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;" ! '''Year of census''' !! '''Mexican residents''' |- style="background:#CFCFCF;" | 2005 || 4,601 |- | 2010 || 1,392 {{decrease}} |- | 2011 || 12,982 {{increase}} |- | 2015 || 19,003 {{increase}} |- | 2023 || 40,000 {{increase}} |}
==Notable people== {{further information|:Category:French people of Mexican descent}}
==See also== *[[French immigration to Mexico]] *[[France-Mexico relations]] *[[Immigration to France]] *[[Second Mexican Empire]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.club-mexico.de/ Mexican Community in France]
{{Mexican diaspora}} {{Migration to France from the Americas}}
[[Category:Ethnic groups in France]] [[Category:Mexican diaspora|France]] [[Category:French people of Mexican descent| ]]