Note sur l'immigration espagnole à Bordeaux de 1830 à 1854

Abstract

In XIXth-century Bordeaux were to be found double the number of immigrants than on average in other French towns and, amongst these, emerged a large Spanish colony. Extraction of data on 25 years of marriages and deaths (1830-1854) allowed the geographical origins of these Spaniards to be examined. Although dispersed at the beginning of the period under study, they moved little by little towards the working class districts, thereby accompanying trends in their socio-occupational structure. The origins of this immigration have also been established : the main ports, and Madrid, are in part responsible for departures but lie far behind the Pyrenean provinces, at the forefront of which are to be found Huesca and Lerida. One unusual finding is that the small region of Val d'Aran, a Gascon region on Spanish territory, is alone responsible for 24 % of Spanish emigration to Bordeaux.