Let's see if this group is still up for some history:I still haven't found precise details about when and how the Avignon/Comtat Venaissin communities adopted the Portuguese rite.The new communities founded by Comtadin/Avignonaisse Jews in the 18th and 19th century seem to all have followed the Portuguese rite. This is explicit for Aix-en-Provence and Toulouse (where there were also some actual Portuguese Jews), and seems to be the case for Nîmes, as it was part of the Marseille consistoire. Also in Marseille, many Jews with Comtadin names explicitly identified as Sephardic/Portuguese. I haven't found the rite mentoned in Montpellier, but I assume it was the same.I just find it strange that such a change in rite that I imagine must have been controversial at least for some, is barely mentioned in historical writings about the communities.