I am laughing that you have to go to some book, or online info like Wiki !! to try and tell me about France and what the French call gypsies. Sorry but you can call it jazz manouche, or gyspy jazz but no idea of any other form of calling jazz by another name for a gypsy, I only know those two names, as far as jazz is concerned, the other offerings were simply a few of many actual names that gypsies are known by, not as far as jazz though....
Did anyone say he wasn't then? You might as well say Johnny Hallyday was not born in France but Belgium, it all adds up to making no sense on this thread Oh and I forgot to mention, he never "lost" any fingers, he had two of them badly burnt but still managed to use them in parts of is music..Oh damn, I'll get hit with Wiki again !!Django was born in Belgium not in France.
Glad you don't mind but TBH I don't care what I look like and if you can't be told the facts from someone "on the ground" so to speak and preferring to believe the wiki version, then so be it, carry on being quite wrong, no skin off my nose....