What is Crémieux Decree? Explain Crémieux Decree, Define Crémieux Decree, Meaning of Crémieux Decree

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Title: What is Crémieux Decree? Explain Crémieux Decree, Define Crémieux Decree, Meaning of Crémieux Decree
Created on: 2018-09-24

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Description: The Crémieux Decree was a law that granted French citizenship to the majority of the Jewish population in French Algeria , signed by the Government of National Defense on 24 October 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. It was named after French-Jewish lawyer and Minister of Justice Adolphe Crémieux, who had founded the Alliance Israélite Universelle a decade earlier. It was signed as Decree 136 of 1870 by Adolphe Crémieux as Minister of Justice, Léon Gambetta as Minister of the Interior, Alexandre Glais-Bizoin and Martin Fourichon as a naval and colonial minister. The ministers were members of the military government in Tours, the Gouvernement de la Défense nationale, since France was still at war, and the provisional government had its seat in Tours. At the same time the naturalization regime in French Algeria was confirmed in Decree 137, determining that Muslims are not French citizens in the French colony of Algeria. The aim was to maintain the status quo, the sovereignty of France over its North African colonies. Five years later, in 1875, this was confirmed in the framework of the Code de l'indigénat. The decree allowed for native Jews to automatically become French citizens while Muslim Arabs and Berbers were excluded and remained under the second-class indigenous status outlined in the Code de l'Indigénat. They could, on paper, request French citizenship, but requests were very seldom accepted. That set the scene for deteriorating relations between the Muslim and Jewish communities and proved fateful in the Algerian War of Independence, after which the vast majority of the French Jews of Algeria emigrated to France. Decrees 136 and 137 were published in Official Gazette of the City Tours on 7 November 1870. From 1940 to 1943, the Crémieux Decree was abolished under the Vichy regime.

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