Regional Dialects "en France" I wonder if our North America regional dialects have been compared to these. -----Original Message----- From: The French Genealogy Blog French Settlers Speaking the Same Dialect Posted: 13 Mar 2017 05:09 AM PDT Because much of the popular history of immigration to the United States concerns immigrants fleeing religious persecution, it is tempting to look at the reasons for all French immigrants' departures as being due to the same cause, but they certainly were not. Many people were economic migrants; impoverished in France, they left all that they had known to try for a better life elsewhere. This may especially be true of those who left France during the great wave after the 1848 Revolution and economic crisis, which peaked in 1851, when over twenty thousand French emigrated to the United States. (1) http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/2017/03/french-settlers-speaking-the-same-dialect.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheFrenchGenealogyBlog+(The+French+Genealogy+Blog