MarkMas
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My mum came from Corsica, she was Italian descent not French as lots on the island still are!
Apparently the French blagged the island in some treaty a couple hundred years ago from the Italians.
I remember going over there in the early 80's watching the rallying, bombs were going off every where, anything French was a target!
Dave
The Republic of Genoa sold Corsica to France at the Treaty of Versailles in 1768.
Corsica was British 1794-1796 and briefly in 1814.