Today there are more than 850 branches of French companies, employing more than 500,000 Brazilians.

BRAZIL HAS HISTORICAL RELATIONS WITH FRANCE

Which tried to colonize it twice: Villegaignon’s «France Antarctica» in Rio and «Equinocial France» in São Luís do Maranhão (created originally as Saint-Louis-de-Maragnan). Both projects failed, but what France did not achieve with the arms, it did with the heart, with its ideas, its culture and its companies. Those who have already been in Brazil recognize the large number of French companies that have established themselves and are responsible for a significant portion of the production of value-added products, such as the aut...