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Two weeks ago, I went back home to find that my book order came in! 100 ans d'histoire des Portugais en France by Marie-Christine Volovitch-Tavares was published in 2016, a hundred years after the first labour agreement signed by Portugal and France. I think that was a great book to get acquainted with the history of this immigration - I was actually mainly recommended La dictature de Salazar face à l'émigration: l'État portugais et ses migrants en France (1957-1974) of Victor Pereira, but I just received a notification that it was on its way and I should receive it soon.In any case, 100 ans d'histoire des Portugais en France is full of details, stories, portraits, pictures, newspapers' articles and archives. In order to make some sense out of this material, I thought to draw a timeline.First of all, that sounds easier than it seems! Like a good millenial, I immediatly refered this issue to my friend Google, which gave me a lot of online free options. I tried this: https://time.graphics/line/158333. The problem is, if you do not have a premium, then the export is sloppy and rather hard to read.I decided to resolve to excel. I put all the 1916 to 1975 year-data together. as a first step, and asked my second friend youtube a nice tutorial to create a timeline. Here is what I managed to do so far:I still have some work to do: maybe someone in the crowd have had some good result and can share it with me?In general, what strikes most in reading the timeline is the increasing presence of Portuguese after the 1960s: from 50,000 to 750,000 in just 13 years. That explains a lot about the demographic loss I wrote about in my last post. Surely, some people are the same! The less labour agreements came into force, the more undocumented entries were seen. And these undocumented exits and entries are hard to trace back.The second interesting "cloud" of data, is that of the institutional arrangements that changed with the intensification of Portuguese immigration: new offices, closer to the main residential areas of Portuguese, pressure towards the consulate, and after 1974, numerous official visits to normalise the presence of Portuguese, regulations for immigrants' savings in Portuguese banks... etc. What misses however here, is the meso-level, in between the big historical events reported, and the everyday stories and people's portraits depicted in the book. I hope to find more about that in the other books transiting in the hallways of international post services! 