French Tsengians

French Tsengians or Franco-Tsengians (Chinese: 法裔曾國人; pinyin: Fǎ yì Zēngguórén; French: Franco-Tsengiens or Tsengiens français/Tsengiennes françaises) are citizens of the Tseng Republic with full or partial French ancestry. They are the second-largest European ethnic group in Tseng after the British, and as of 2020, there are about 73,833 Franco-Tsengians in Tseng, but possibly more mixed-race who declare themselves as Han Tsengian.

Origins and history
French people settled in Tseng following the establishment of a colony in the southern part of the island in 1616, mainly wealthy merchants from the. However, the colony was unstable, and in 1790, the French colony was dissolved. A few French people stayed in Tseng, but mass immigration didn't explode until the re-establishment of the colony in 1884, and from 1894, the colony was known as the Talasides. Almost all immigrants were men from, , and , settling in what is now the state of Nankou. Some moved north to Arbre-Rose. From there, they had children with both native Han and indigenous women, starting a generation of mixed-race Tsengians.

The first governor of the Talasides, Jean-Gabriel Loisè, instituted several segregationist laws that gave French colonial officials more freedoms than native Tsengians or French-Tsengians in an effort to maintain "racial purity". These freedoms, added with the good climate and job opportunities, led to many French families to move to the Talasides. By 1936, there were 428,329 French living in the Talasides, the highest number of colonial population in all European colonies in Tseng.

Business

 * Pacôme Saint-Pierre, businessman and founder of the Zhaoling Group dashang (Walloon immigrant to the Talasides, became a naturalized Tsengian citizen upon the country's independence)
 * Jean-Denis LaClaire, co-founder of the Huoxing Group dashang.
 * Marie-Noëlle LaClaire, current Chairwoman of the Board of Huoxing Group.

Music

 * Adrienne Jeandel, frontwoman of the Franco-Tsengian pop-punk/emo band Coast 2 Coast