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Also known as emigre, émigré

An émigré () is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social exile or self-exile. The word is the past participle of the French verb émigrer meaning "to emigrate".

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  • French Huguenots
  • American Revolution
  • French Revolution
  • Partitions of Poland and Polish uprisings
  • Russian Revolution
  • 20th century émigrés
  • South Africa
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An émigré () is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social exile or self-exile. The word is the past participle of the French verb émigrer meaning "to emigrate".

==French Huguenots==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “emigrant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.