France has long considered itself the original melting pot. Except for the few thousand Catholics who left for New France and the Protestant Huguenots who fled religious persecution, France has traditionally been a country of immigration, not emigration. Waves of foreigners blended with the locals according to a secular model of integration that implied voluntarily abandoning the ways of the old country. The model has been trumpeted by presidents as a defining feature of the Republic.
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