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In the 2000s, the French state faced a series of complaints, actual or potential, relating to its nationality, emanating from Scotland, Mauritius and Quebec. They raised the question of the interaction between old legislation and the current legal framework concerning naturalization or reintegration into French nationality. This article aims to make an inventory of the texts concerning these three regions, to compare the cases and to evaluate the diversity of the situations, made sometimes obscure by the selective recourse to heterogeneous documentation which allows a systematic refusal by the authorities.

Edouard Baraton

Docteur en Histoire. Université de Rouen-Normandie.