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Revision as of 16:16, 22 March 2018
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 338[1] | |
| Languages | |
| American English · French · Breton | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism Protestantism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Cornish Americans · Irish Americans · Manx Americans · Scottish Americans · Scotch-Irish Americans · Welsh Americans · other Celtic Americans |
Breton Americans are Americans of Breton descent from Brittany.
History
A large wave of Breton immigrants arrived in the New York City area during the 1950s and 1960s.[2] Many settled in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.[2]
Notable people
| Lists of Americans |
|---|
| By US state |
| By ethnicity |
- Jack Kerouac
- Sylvester Stallone
- John James Audubon
- Charles Guillou
- Jackie Stallone
- René Galand
- Youenn Gwernig
- Paol Keineg
- Irene Le Guyader Gilroy - first bretonne to graduate from an Ivy League college (Barnard College, Class of 1969)
- Tina Weymouth
- Celine Dion - singer, resident in Las Vegas, Nevada
See also
References
- ^ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000" (XLS). U.S. Census Bureau. January 22, 2007. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
- ^ a b Flint Marx, Rebecca (April 5, 2012). "Filling a Hole on the Block, With Cream". New York Times. Retrieved July 4, 2015.