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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7902475" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It wouldn't have been very diverse. Jews had ghettoes until Napoleon, mass immigration didn't exist and you would have a few  ambassador's from places like Ottoman Empire. This is 16th century or so before then even less. Not everyone would be French, back then the regions were more nationalities. France wasn't unified as such until the 15th or 16th century depending on how you count it. You would have had Bretons and people from the old Burgundy.The booted out Protestants in the Reformation, mist foreigners would be other Europeans with a very few visitors from North Africa or Ottomans.Venice for example had the Turkish house. All the Turks lived in one house.There were no Mosques outside of Sicily and parts of now Russia.So everyone would be Catholic, European, and mostly French (99%+ probably).London in the 18th Century had 10 000 Africans iirc but population of a million+ iirc.It's been a while since Uni but yeah your diverse cities were the merchant ports in the med and places like the Balkans. They got cleansed in the 20th century (Nazis, Greece/Turkey, Yugoslavia etc).Mosques were illegal, Protestant illegal (Catholic in the UK until 19th century).People got exhibited into the 20th century.</blockquote>