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Dance on the volcano / Marie Vieux-Chauvet ; translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover

Hayden Library - PQ3949.C493 D213 2016




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2084: the end of the world / Boualem Sansal ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Hayden Library - PQ3989.2.S2455 A61513 2017




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Based on a true story / Delphine de Vigan ; translated from the French by George Miller

Hayden Library - PQ2722.I43 D3613 2017




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The Meursault investigation / Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by John Cullen

Hayden Library - PQ3989.3.D365 M4813 2015




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A journey round my room / by Xavier De Maistre ; translated from the French, with a notice of the author's life by H.A

Rotch Library - PQ2342.M3 V6913 1871a




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The glory of the empire: a novel, a history / Jean D'Ormesson ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn

Hayden Library - PQ2629.R58 G513 2016




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Ladivine / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Hayden Library - PQ2674.D53 N39413 2016




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The Cambridge companion to French literature / edited by John D. Lyons

Hayden Library - PQ103.L95 2016




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Nothing but waves and wind / Christine Montalbetti ; translated from the French by Jane Kuntz

Hayden Library - PQ2713.O576 P5813 2017




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A perfect disharmony: stories / Sébastien Brebel ; translated from the French by Jesse Anderson

Hayden Library - PQ2702.R42 A2 2017




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The kites / Romain Gary ; translated from the French and with an afterword by Miranda Richmond Mouillot

Hayden Library - PQ2613.A58 C413 2017




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Critical terrains: French and British orientalisms / Lisa Lowe

Online Resource




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Incest / Christine Angot ; translated from the French by Tess Lewis

Hayden Library - PQ2661.N4624 I4313 2017




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French écocritique: reading contemporary French theory and fiction ecologically / Stephanie Posthumus

Hayden Library - PQ307.E26 P67 2017




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Such fine boys / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti ; with a foreword by J.M.G. Le Clézio

Hayden Library - PQ2673.O3 D413 2017




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Sundays in August / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls

Hayden Library - PQ2673.O3 D513 2017




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The great and the good / by Michel Déon ; translated from the French by Julian Evans

Hayden Library - PQ2607.E525 C6413 2017




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In praise of defeat: poems selected by the author / Abdellatif Laâbi ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Hayden Library - PQ3989.2.L23 A6 2016b




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Not one day / Anne Garréta ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan and the author

Hayden Library - PQ2667.A7737 P3713 2017




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Disoriental / Négar Djavadi ; translated from the French by Tina Kover

Hayden Library - PQ3979.3.D53 D4713 2018




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The Oberon anthology of contemporary French plays / [edited and] translated by Chris Campbell

Hayden Library - PQ1240.E5 O24 2017




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A handful of blue earth / Vénus Khoury-Ghata ; translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker

Hayden Library - PQ2671.H6 A2 2017




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Island of Point Nemo / Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès ; translated from the French by Hannah Chute

Hayden Library - PQ2662.L354 I4413 2017




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Melville: a novel / Jean Giono ; translated from the French by Paul Eprile ; introduction by Edmund White

Hayden Library - PQ2613.I57 P6513 2017




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The influence peddlers / Hédi Kaddour ; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan

Hayden Library - PQ2671.A277 P7413 2017




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History of violence / Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Lorin Stein

Hayden Library - PQ2712.O895 H5713 2018




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A new history of French literature / edited by Denis Hollier ; with R. Howard Bloch [and 7 others]

Online Resource




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Love cures: healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett

Online Resource




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Weaving narrative: clothing in twelfth-century French romance / Monica L. Wright

Online Resource




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Checkpoint / Jean-Christophe Rubin ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Hayden Library - PQ2678.U357 C4413 2017




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Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms.

Online Resource




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Slave old man / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Édouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale

Hayden Library - PQ3949.2.C45 E8213 2018




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A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast

Hayden Library - PQ103.H57 2017




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Life of David Hockney: a novel / Catherine Cusset ; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan

Hayden Library - PQ2663.U84 V5413 2019




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Exposed / Jean-Philippe Blondel ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Hayden Library - PQ2702.L67 M5713 2019




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The order of the day / Éric Vuillard ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Dewey Library - PQ2682.U45 O7313 2018




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The perfect nanny: a novel / Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Hayden Library - PQ2719.L56 C4313 2018




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The politics of love: queer heterosexuality in nineteenth-century French literature / Maxime Foerster

Hayden Library - PQ293.M39 F64 2018




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Serotonin / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside

Dewey Library - PQ2668.O77 S4813 2019




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The cheffe: a cook's novel / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Dewey Library - PQ2674.D53 C4613 2019




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Desirable body / Hubert Haddad ; translated from the French by Alyson Waters

Browsery PQ2668.A314 C6713 2018




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A certain Plume / Henri Michaux ; translated from the French by Richard Sieburth ; preface by Lawrence Durrell

Browsery PQ2625.I2 A2 2018




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Bonjour, piano!: upper intermediate level ; 17 pieces by French composers in progressive order.

STACK SCORE MT245.B655 2018




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The syntax of Arabic and French code switching in Morocco / Mustapha Aabi

Online Resource




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Fellow travellers: Communist trade unionism and industrial relations on the French railways, 1914-1939 / Thomas Beaumont

Online Resource




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The division of labor in society / by Emile Durkheim ; translated from the French by George Simpson

Durkheim, Emile, 1858-1917




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French Open to start on September 27?

Organisers in talks with governing bodies amid rescheduling reports.




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French Open ticket holders to get refund

The French Tennis Federation says it will refund tickets purchased for the French Open because of uncertainty related to the coronavirus pandemic.




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French Muslims in Perspective: Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Marginalisation under the Republic / Joseph Downing

Online Resource




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Legal Research Reports:The Revocation of Huguenot Rights to French Citizenship

The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report, The Revocation of Huguenot Rights to French Citizenship

The 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes deprived French Protestants, otherwise known as the Huguenots, of all religious and civil liberties.  This led to the widespread persecution of Huguenots, and over 400,000 emigrated from France as a result.  Religious freedom was re-established during the French Revolution, and a 1790 law provided that descendants of French individuals who had fled the country due to religious persecution had a right to settle in France and claim French citizenship.  This rule, confirmed in a slightly amended form in 1889, remained applicable until 1945, when the French Citizenship Code abrogated almost all prior legislation on the matter of citizenship, including the laws of 1790 and 1889.

The 1945 French Citizenship Code was adopted by way of an ordonnance, which is, in this context, an act of delegated legislation.  The French Constitution allows, under certain conditions, the executive branch to legislate in lieu of Parliament.  These acts of legislation, which are subject to both prior authorization and later confirmation by Parliament, are called ordonnances.  Once an ordonnance has been ratified or confirmed by Parliament, it becomes the equivalent of a law.  An ordonnance may amend or entirely abrogate prior legislation. 

The concept of delegated legislation has existed in France for a long time, under different names.  However, the 1945 ordonnance that instituted the then-new French Citizenship Code never authorized by Parliament, because France had no Parliament to speak of between July 1940 and October 1945.  It does not appear that the legality and legitimacy of the ordonnances of 1945 were ever challenged, and French courts treat them as a valid exercise of legislative authority.  The 1945 ordonnance which abrogated the right to French citizenship for descendants of Huguenots should therefore be seen as a valid piece of legislation under French law.

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