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How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789

How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789

Weil, Patrick
Porter, Catherine

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French HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0822343487
ISBN13: 9780822343486
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 15 2008
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France's foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long pioneered nationality policies. It was France that first made the parent's nationality the child's birthright, regardless of whether the child is born on national soil, and France has changed its nationality laws more often and more significantly than any other modern democratic nation. Focusing on the political and legal confrontations that policies governing French nationality have continually evoked and the laws that have resulted, Weil teases out the rationales of lawmakers and jurists. In so doing, he definitively separates nationality from national identity. He demonstrates that nationality laws are written not to realize lofty conceptions of the nation but to address specific issues such as the autonomy of the individual in relation to the state or a sudden decline in population.

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