Editing Population transfer (section)

===France===
Two famous transfers connected with the [[history of France]] are the banning of the religion of the Jews in 1308 and that of the [[Huguenot]]s, French [[Protestants]] by the [[Edict of Fontainebleau]] in 1685. Religious warfare over the Protestants led to many seeking refuge in the Low Countries, England and Switzerland.<ref name="huguenot_switzerland">{{cite web |title=The Huguenot Refuge in Switzerland |url=https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/le-refuge-huguenot-en-suisse/ |website=Protestant Museum website |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref> In the early 18th century, some Huguenots emigrated to [[Thirteen Colonies|colonial America]]. In both cases, the population was not forced out but rather their religion was declared illegal and so many left the country.

According to Ivan Sertima, [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] ordered all blacks to be deported from France but was unsuccessful. At the time, they were mostly [[free people of color]] from the Caribbean and Louisiana colonies, usually descendants of French colonial men and African women. Some fathers sent their mixed-race sons to France to be educated or gave them property to be settled there. Others entered the military, as did [[Thomas-Alexandre Dumas]], the father of [[Alexandre Dumas]].<ref name="Sertima1986">{{cite book |last=Sertima |first=Ivan Van |title=African Presence in Early Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMY1p0t_bHoC&pg=PA199 |access-date=10 June 2011 |date=1986-01-01 |publisher=Transaction Books |isbn=978-0-88738-664-0 |page=199 |quote=Louis XV, in an effort to stop the mass influx of blacks into Paris, ordered all blacks deported from France. This did not, in fact, take place.}}</ref>

Some Algerians were also forcefully removed from their native land by France in the late 19th century, and moved to the Pacific, most notably to New Caledonia.<ref>{{Citation |title=🇩🇿 Exile In New Caledonia {{!}} Al Jazeera World | date=17 September 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsr-FjZhEM |access-date=2024-01-26 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Douah |first1=Chahrazade |last2=Godin |first2=Mélissa |date=2022-05-02 |title=The Algerians of New Caledonia |url=https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-algerians-of-new-caledonia/ |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=New Lines Magazine |language=en}}</ref>