'''الفرنسيون''' ([[لغة فرنسية|بالفرنسيَّة]]: Français) هي [[مجموعة عرقية]]،<ref name="Minahan">{{cite book |last=Minahan |first=James |author-link= |title=One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC |date=2000 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |location= |page=257 |isbn=0313309841 |quote=The French are a basically Latin people of mixed [[Germanic peoples|Germanicجرمان]], Mediterranean, and other European strains}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kertzer |first=David I. |last2=Arel |first2=Dominique|title=Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMxbzF4NdFUC |accessdate= |year=2002 |publisher=[[Cambridgeمطبعة Universityجامعة Pressكامبريدج]] |location= |isbn= 0521004276 |page=80}}</ref><ref name=EDS>{{cite web |last= |first= | title=Ethnic Diversity Survey: portrait of a multicultural society |year=2003 |publisher=Statistics Canada |url=http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/housingconference/Statistics.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate= }}</ref><ref name="Jantzen">{{cite book|format=PDF|url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/CH36-4-1-2004E.pdf|editor1=Adsett, Margaret|editor2=Mallandain, Caroline|editor3=Stettner, Shannon|last=Jantzen|first=Lorna|title=Canadian and French perspectives on diversity: Conference proceedings, October 16, 2003|publisher=Canadian Heritage, Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada|location=Ottawa|year=2005|isbn=0-662-38231-5|chapter=The Advantages of Analyzing Ethnic Attitudes Across Generation – Results from the Ethnic Diversity Survey|page=111|accessdate=19 May 2016}}</ref> و[[أمة]] التي تم تحديدها مع دولة [[فرنسا]]. وقد يكون هذا الإرتباط عرقياً أو قانونياً أو تاريخياً أو ثقافياً.
تاريخياً يعود معظم تراث الشعب الفرنسي معظمهم إلى [[كلت|الكلت]]، و[[جرمان|الشعب الجرماني]] و
