The candidate the Republicans in the presidential election used this formula of the nationalist circles which distinguishes the “French of strain” and those of foreign origin.
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We had not heard the formula in meetings from the flight of Jean-Marie Le Pen. At the Zenith of Paris, in front of 7,000 people, Sunday, February 13, Valérie Pécresse claimed: “I want to make French of heart, and not just French of paper”. Earlier, she had cited, from the fourth minute of her speech, the racist and complotist theory of the “big replacement” – expressions directly from the far-right register, first anti-Semite at the end of the XIX e century, then xenophobic since the 1920s.
This formula, “French paper”, distinguishes French so-called “strain” and naturalized citizens. The nationalist circles use it more broadly against the French of foreign origin, suspected of being less attached to their country, in a rhetoric that opposes the “heart”, to designate the patriotic sentiment, and an administrative state supposed deceptive.
Originally, the term “French stamped paper” would have appeared under the pen of the Albert Monniot essayist, collaborator of the free speech, the anti-Soumite log of Edouard Drumont. She then appointed Jews of foreign origin having obtained nationality after demand made on stamped paper, recalls the historian Emmanuel Debono. In his anti-Semitic Pamphlet Jewish France, in 1886, Drumont describes the Jews as “French name and not of heart”. Charles Maurras, Father of Full Nationalism and French Action, Critical In The Cocade, Journal Led by Maurice Barrès in 1894, “This piece of paper” that “a diploma of naturalization”. And presents the French as “the prey of any barbaric, of all Médéque to whom he will appeal to bother to enter their homes”.
“No soul, no real belonging”
In 1922, the nationalist newspaper the newspaper relays “the doubt” weighing on the new naturalized people of Alsace-Moselle, described as “Papolde”, French on the paper “with a” heart remained German “. In 1927, Figaro agrees that a law facilitating the naturalization of immigrants manufactures “thousands of” French stamped paper “”: “The naturalized stranger becomes a complete citizen, can we read; he has on earth of our ancestors the same rights as us “.
In the big replacement, in 2011, the extreme right ideologist Renaud Camus, who supports Eric Zemmour, aimed the Muslims who “say they do not be French otherwise of paper, no heart, no soul, No real belonging, and feel more this or that French “. He then suggested that their wishes be heard, that their administrative situation be put in agreement with their feelings, that French nationality be withdrawn “.
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