Céline Dion

fancyfull says:

Greetings @ethnic shouldn’t a tag for the Breton be added? given they are distinct but still a fundamental part for the formation of the French ethnicity, whom the basis and the definition are the ethno-linguistic subdivisions of Romance (Italic branch) d’oïl, d’oc, arpitan (franco-provençal). while the Bretons are not part of the 3 Romance subdivisions which form the French ethnicity, they still are deeply embedded within the French ethnos, but the same thing we can’t say about the Franconians (Flemish and Mosellan Franconians) and the Alemannic (Alsatians), both Germanic subdivisions native to Nord and Moselle departments for the Franconians, while the Alemannic in the departments which make up Alsace. they, unlike Bretons, aren’t embedded for millennia, who were under the French crown for over 1000 years and had that level of integration between the Romance (Italic branch), which those two Germanic subdivisions didn’t have that level of syncretisation over millennia. so returning to Céline, her mother’s paternal line, the Tanguay, ultimately traces to Jean-Baptiste Tanguay born in 1662, Ploudiry, Finistère department in Brittany, meaning he was Breton, and the surname origin also confirms it, meaning Céline is at least some Breton from her mother’s paternal line. but for other ancestors I didn’t dig it deeper, but from what I searched they were mostly of d’oïl (northern French) extraction, her father’s ancestry overwhelmingly so, with some d’oc (southern French), while her mother, from what I searched, her ancestors were also mostly d’oïl as well, but a significant share was d’oc, more than compared to Céline’s father’s ancestors. while the Breton from her mother, from where her paternal line name is from (Tanguay), they mostly married into folks of d’oïl extraction, with a big share of d’oc, meaning she is at least some Breton, but if others want to dig it more across her massive family available online to trace every single ancestor until arriving to the starting lines in Europe, be my guest. so apart from the two Portuguese men born in 1641 João Rodrigues (Jean Rodrigue) and 1647 Pedro da Silva (Pierre Dassilva/Dassylva), both born in Lisbon, while Pedro (Pierre)’s mother was likely French as her name was Marie Lefrançois, which the surname was not a possible Frenchification from a Portuguese surname, while his father was José da Silva (Joseph Dassilva/Dassylva), clearly Portuguese. both Pedro (Pierre) and João (Jean) in Canada married French settlers of mostly d’oïl extraction from what I searched. and the 3rd and last ancestor of Céline which was not ultimately from the French kingdom’s subjects in Europe was William Ross (Guillaume Ross). he was born in Gullane in East Lothian (near Edinburgh) in 1732/33. he also married a French settler who was mostly ultimately of d’oïl extraction. so Céline Dion’s ancestry is overwhelmingly d’oïl extraction, over 50% at least up to over 60%, while her d’oc extraction is from 30% to 40%, while the two Portuguese men, of which one was half French likely d’oïl or d’oc, and the Scottish man combined are less than 1% of her ancestry. while the gap of 10% between upper range of the d’oïl and d’oc and the lower range is because whether Jean-Baptiste Tanguay was her Breton ancestor ONLY or not, given the sheer size of her compiled family tree, it is possible other French ancestors of hers were Breton by extraction and not d’oïl or d’oc, meaning the gap of 10% is necessary.